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.
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