Aircraft carrying 38 bodies of Indians killed in Iraq landed in Amritsar with Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh on board. Singh had left for Baghdad on Sunday to bring the bodies back.

Sidhu asked parties not to politicize the incident.

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Punjab Local Bodies Minister, has reached the Amritsar airport along with Union Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment Vijay Sampla received the bodies of the Iraq victims. Sidhu met the family members at the airport and assured that the government would rehabilitate them. "We shall rehabilitate all the families. Government is with you in this hour of grief," Sidhu said while appealing to all parties not to politicize the incident as reported by Indian Express.

In the wake of a Bharat bandh called by a number of Dalit organizations today to protest against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST Act, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has urged to the protesters to let the mortal remains of the Iraq victims be ferried to their native villages without any interruption. He has also directed the Punjab police to give strict security for the same along the routes, from the airport to the respective native villages of the victims.