The Indian government sent a C-17 transport plane to carry the 266 men and 17 women back home, with a second batch of 257 due to be flown out on Tuesday.
China has repatriated more than 2,000 of its nationals freed from Myanmar scam centres through Thailand since the three countries began their crackdown late last month.
Scam centres have sprung up in Myanmar’s border areas in recent years as part of a criminal industry worth billions of dollars a year.
Thousands of foreign workers staff the centres, trawling social media for victims to fleece, often through romance or investment cons.
Many workers say they were lured or tricked into taking the work and suffered beatings and abuse.
But China has so far treated its repatriated workers as criminal suspects, clapping them in handcuffs on their return home.
