They went to Australia nearly a decade ago, on a study, tourist, or spouse visa, looking for greener pastures, but eventually started consuming drugs, committing thefts/burglaries, or other serious crimes, and landed in jail in a foreign land. In some cases, the same crime was committed multiple times. Deported to India after being charged with several criminal offences by the Australian Police, the nine Punjab natives who landed in Delhi on Thursday, in their statements recorded with the Punjab Police (copies with The Indian Express), have narrated their tales having familiar elements – drugs, matrimonial disputes, weapons, visa rejection, depression, and spending months/years in Australian jails. From confessing to how they started consuming drugs after “getting depressed due to visa extension rejection” to matrimonial disputes with their partners, which affected their spouse visa, the deportees have narrated how their Australian dream ended on the other side of the law.…