KATHMANDU, AUGUST 31
Police have started strict surveillance after cases of human trafficking through the misuse of visit visa were revealed.
Police returned around 200 people from Tribhuvan International Airport between August 24 and 27, who were going abroad on a visit visa. They were stopped from boarding the plane after police found their document suspicious.
In the course of investigation, it was found that 39 people were going to be trafficked to Kuwait on a visit visa made on the basis of fake documentation, said Spokesperson for the Human Trafficking and Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police, Superintendent of Police Dan Bahadur Malla.
He added that some people were involved in the case and search for them was under way. They were returned from TIA as they were bound for Kuwait where the government had stopped sending people as domestic workers. They were allured by attractive salary in Kuwait as domestic worker.
It has been revealed that the gang involved in such activity used to bring women and men to Kathmandu after making necessary documents including passports themselves. Malla shared that the victims themselves filed complaint at the Bureau for legal action after confirmation that they were being sent to Kuwait illegally.
Investigation against the accused is under way under Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act-2064 and search for them is on.
A version of this article appears in the print on September 1, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.
