Around 180 residents of Jammu and Kashmir and 57 of Ladakh, who had returned from Iran last month, were brought home in air force flights on Tuesday amid lockdown.
These persons had been under quarantine in different parts of the country. There were demands across the two union territories that these people should be brought back.
Ladakh divisional commissioner Saugat Biswas said the administration is happy to announce return of the first batch of 57 Iran returnees to Kargil post-quarantine. A special air force flight brought them from Hindon (UP) and landed at Kargil on Tuesday.
“Tomorrow another 173 will land here,” Biswas said.
Srinagar DC said the flights carrying the Iran returnees landed on Tuesday and will head home after screening. “Around 180 people landed in Srinagar from Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Hindon,” he said.