Indian Student Handcuffed And Pinned To Ground In New York, Video Sparks Outrage

An Indian student was handcuffed and pinned to the floor at Newark Airport in the United States of America before he was deported shows a video shared on X by Indian-American entrepreneur Kunal Jain. While sharing the clip, Jain also wrote that the young man in the video was crying and that US authorities were treating him like he’s a “criminal.”

“I witnessed a young Indian student being deported from Newark Airport last night— handcuffed, crying, treated like a criminal,” he wrote on X.

Jain called on the Indian Embassy in America to look into the incident and provide assistance to the deported student. 

"This poor kid's parent won’t know what’s happening to him. @IndianEmbassyUS @DrSJaishankar he was to be boarded last night in the same flight with me but he never got boarded. Someone needs to find out what’s going on with him at New Jersey authorities. I found him disoriented," Jain stated.

The videos shared by Jain show US authorities pinning a young Indian man to the floor. From the photograph he shared, the officers appear to be from Port Authority Police.

The Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) is a transit law-enforcement agency serving New York and New Jersey that is mandated to policing the Port Authority’s infrastructure, such as airports, bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, seaports, rail transit, and the World Trade Centre. It is the US’s largest transit‑related police force. 

“He came chasing dreams, not causing harm. As an NRI, I felt helpless and heartbroken. This is a human tragedy,” said Kunal Jain, who is the President of HealthBots AI. According to his X post, he witnessed the incident at Newark Airport in New Jersey. 

Jain also said that the young man was speaking in Haryanvi. 

“These children get their visas and get on a flight in the morning. For some reason, they are unable to explain the reason for their visit to the immigration authorities and are sent back on the evening flight tied up like criminals. Every day 3-4 such cases are happening. There have been more such cases in the last few days,” wrote Jain.

The boy, Jain said, was shouting, "I am not crazy...they are hell bent to prove that I am crazy." 

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the administration of US President Donald Trump, since assuming power in January, has deported as many as 1,080 Indian nationals from America.