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Racket sending Nepalis to Afghan busted
Ravi Dhami
KATHMANDU: An international network of racketeers involved in forging passports has been found to be working in Nepal.
The police initiated probe after two Nepali youths were arrested from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, on Sunday for possessing forged Indian passports. It has revealed that racketeers had been sending Nepali youths to Afghanistan and Iraq flouting the ban imposed by Nepal.
Indian police arrested Bishnunath Gurung and Krishna Bahadur Rai, who had been working as security guards in a security agency in Kabul since December 2009, for possessing fake Indian passports. The arrested duo revealed that a foreign employment agent in Kathmandu had helped them receive the passports. Indian police, on the basis of the information received from the duo, have arrested Ramesh Prasad Yadav, a travel agent, from New Delhi.
Indian police have found out that hundreds of Nepali youths had already been sent to Afghanistan with the fake documents. The duo was carrying passports issued to them by Regional Passport Office, Guwahati. “We had not applied for the passports but the agent asked for photos and provided us with the passports,” they claimed. According to the police, the passports were arranged by an agent based in Kathmandu. Their visa and ticketing formalities were completed through another travel agent based in Delhi.
Meanwhile, Ramesh Prasad Kharel, SP, Metropolitan Police Circle, Kathmandu, said the police, suspecting that such racketeers might be active while the process of acquiring machine readable passports had not yet been initiated in Nepal, have intensified action against possible racketeers in Kathmandu.
Madan Mahat, secretary, Foreign Employment Association, urged Nepal and Indian government to take immediate action against such illegal activities.
The police initiated probe after two Nepali youths were arrested from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, on Sunday for possessing forged Indian passports. It has revealed that racketeers had been sending Nepali youths to Afghanistan and Iraq flouting the ban imposed by Nepal.
Indian police arrested Bishnunath Gurung and Krishna Bahadur Rai, who had been working as security guards in a security agency in Kabul since December 2009, for possessing fake Indian passports. The arrested duo revealed that a foreign employment agent in Kathmandu had helped them receive the passports. Indian police, on the basis of the information received from the duo, have arrested Ramesh Prasad Yadav, a travel agent, from New Delhi.
Indian police have found out that hundreds of Nepali youths had already been sent to Afghanistan with the fake documents. The duo was carrying passports issued to them by Regional Passport Office, Guwahati. “We had not applied for the passports but the agent asked for photos and provided us with the passports,” they claimed. According to the police, the passports were arranged by an agent based in Kathmandu. Their visa and ticketing formalities were completed through another travel agent based in Delhi.
Meanwhile, Ramesh Prasad Kharel, SP, Metropolitan Police Circle, Kathmandu, said the police, suspecting that such racketeers might be active while the process of acquiring machine readable passports had not yet been initiated in Nepal, have intensified action against possible racketeers in Kathmandu.
Madan Mahat, secretary, Foreign Employment Association, urged Nepal and Indian government to take immediate action against such illegal activities.
Bangali
1,200 Bangladeshis await fake Nepal passports
Ravi DhamiKATHMANDU: Up to 1,200 Bangladeshi nationals have been waiting for fake Nepali passports in Kathmandu to enter Arabian countries for employment.
A source claimed that each of them has given two lakh to 3.50 lakh takas to the agents for the job. This came to light after one of the members of the such a network was nabbed in the capital on May 26. The agents have arranged for the stay of Bangaladeshi national in several parts of the capital, including Samakhushi, Gongabu, Koteshwor and Putalisadak. Some of them are also residing out of the Kathmandu valley. The police have been looking into the case.
They had nabbed a member of international network of fake passport racketeers, Mohhamad Saibuddin, and 12 Bangladeshi nationals on May 26 from Kathmandu. The police claimed that Saibuddin was the kingpin of the racket brining Bangaladeshi nationals to Nepal.
SP Ramesh Kharel, chief, Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka, told THT, “We have detained the leader of the racketeers.” DSP Dipak Thapa, one of the police officers involved in the investigation, said, “There are more than 1,000 Bangaladeshi citizens awaiting Nepali passports in Kathmandu.” They have been brought here to send them to Arabian countries for foreign employment, he added.
The agents had earlier promised them to send them to Arabian countries on Bangaladeshi passports. Later they were informed that they could send them for employment only on Nepali passports.
One of the Bangaladeshi nationals, Anawar Hussain, claimed that the agents assaulted them when they refused to accept fake passports. Hussain told THT: “Most of the Bangaladeshis who are here don’t have Bangaladeshi passports.” Hussain was nabbed on May 26. Immigration department has been interrogating him for using a fake passport.
The source claimed that Bangladeshis were being taught Nepali in parts of the capital secretly. Arabian countries have fixed a quota for Bangaladeshis to give employment, hence they take the Nepal route.
Mobadi
Prachanda has yet another bad hair day
Ravi Dhami
PALUNGTAR: UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s situation during today’s discussion in Palungtar became like ‘the pot calling the kettle black’.
Chairman Dahal, who two days ago had charged his deputies with graft, came under fire when participants today levelled allegations against him that his deceitful tricks to woo party cadres revolved around cash and threats.
Representatives, who were commenting on political documents today, accused Dahal of doling out cash to party cadres and threatening them to use YCL members to get them in his favour. At the ongoing plenum of the party in Palungtar, representatives from different state committees are commenting on political documents presented by Chairman Dahal and two Vice Chairmen Mohan Baidhya and Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
Suspicion that Dahal was using money to woo party cadres had grown stronger after some participants found wrapping papers, which had the seal of Nepal Bank Limited, in large numbers in the huts where state committee members are staying. Such papers are used by the bank to secure wads of notes.
While commenting on the documents, Madhav Sharma, who represents Awadh State Committee, claimed that the party chairman tried to influence the cadres by distributing cash. “The chairman should clarify for what purpose wads of notes had been brought at the meeting venue,” said Sharma, adding, “Horse-trading is going on here.”
According to a participant, there was a commotion in the meeting hall following which one could hear a pin drop when the wrapping papers (with the NRB seal) were demonstrated. The hurly burly later subsided after general secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa announced that a committee would be formed to probe the issue.
A party cadre, who is close to Dr Bhattarai, also charged Dahal with misusing his post and power that he has been enjoying for more than a decade. He said the wrapping papers were discovered in the huts of the representatives from Awadh, Bhojpura and Mithila state committees, among others.
Most of state committees representatives back Dr Bhattarai. Jeevan Sharma, yet another Dr Bhattarai supporter, while commenting on the documents, accused Dahal of bullying party cadres. “Some YCL cadres in a stupor accosted us forcing us to support Dahal,” a participant quoted Sharma. “How fair is it to do so?” Sharma challenged Dahal to decide on what the party cadres want through secret voting, said the participant.
Maoist party office secretary Shakti Basnet, however, refuted the allegations made by Dr Bhattarai’s supporters against Dahal. “We challenge them to come forward with proof of doling out cash. We are ready to initiate action if they can prove it,” Basnet told The Himalayan Times.
Barshaman Pun, a hardcore Dahal supporter, argued Dahal didn’t need to resort to such ‘tactics’ to woo cadres, as he had the majority at the moment.
Chairman Dahal, who two days ago had charged his deputies with graft, came under fire when participants today levelled allegations against him that his deceitful tricks to woo party cadres revolved around cash and threats.
Representatives, who were commenting on political documents today, accused Dahal of doling out cash to party cadres and threatening them to use YCL members to get them in his favour. At the ongoing plenum of the party in Palungtar, representatives from different state committees are commenting on political documents presented by Chairman Dahal and two Vice Chairmen Mohan Baidhya and Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
Suspicion that Dahal was using money to woo party cadres had grown stronger after some participants found wrapping papers, which had the seal of Nepal Bank Limited, in large numbers in the huts where state committee members are staying. Such papers are used by the bank to secure wads of notes.
While commenting on the documents, Madhav Sharma, who represents Awadh State Committee, claimed that the party chairman tried to influence the cadres by distributing cash. “The chairman should clarify for what purpose wads of notes had been brought at the meeting venue,” said Sharma, adding, “Horse-trading is going on here.”
According to a participant, there was a commotion in the meeting hall following which one could hear a pin drop when the wrapping papers (with the NRB seal) were demonstrated. The hurly burly later subsided after general secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa announced that a committee would be formed to probe the issue.
A party cadre, who is close to Dr Bhattarai, also charged Dahal with misusing his post and power that he has been enjoying for more than a decade. He said the wrapping papers were discovered in the huts of the representatives from Awadh, Bhojpura and Mithila state committees, among others.
Most of state committees representatives back Dr Bhattarai. Jeevan Sharma, yet another Dr Bhattarai supporter, while commenting on the documents, accused Dahal of bullying party cadres. “Some YCL cadres in a stupor accosted us forcing us to support Dahal,” a participant quoted Sharma. “How fair is it to do so?” Sharma challenged Dahal to decide on what the party cadres want through secret voting, said the participant.
Maoist party office secretary Shakti Basnet, however, refuted the allegations made by Dr Bhattarai’s supporters against Dahal. “We challenge them to come forward with proof of doling out cash. We are ready to initiate action if they can prove it,” Basnet told The Himalayan Times.
Barshaman Pun, a hardcore Dahal supporter, argued Dahal didn’t need to resort to such ‘tactics’ to woo cadres, as he had the majority at the moment.
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