It has been revealed that 6,000 Indian citizens were sent to third countries without a 'No Objection Certificate' (NOC) when Joint Secretary Tirtharaj Bhattarai was the head of the Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office. Bhattarai was the chief immigration officer at the airport from 23 Oct 2081 for 7 and a half months. It was discovered in the investigation of the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission that they were flown to a third country in the "setting" after receiving money from the Indian.

After receiving the information about human smuggling in the name of visit visa from Tribhuvan International Airport, the commission which is monitoring closely, raided the immigration on 7th May and started the investigation. On that day, the Commission also took Bhattarai into custody. During the investigation focusing on Joint Secretary Bhattarai, it was found that Indian citizens left Kathmandu for America, Canada as well as European countries without NOC. 

According to an investigating officer, one thousand to two thousand US dollars (141 thousand to 283 thousand rupees according to the current exchange rate) was collected from the Indian. The investigation officer suspected that the money had reached the middlemen to the higher levels of the home administration. "Currently, the investigation is only focused on Joint Secretary Bhattarai," he said, "there is a separate investigation on human trafficking in the name of visit visa in the organized collusion of the airport staff." After that, when the investigation was carried out in coordination with the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, it was found that others had flown to third countries without NOC. "The embassy had given the Commission the details of those who had been issued with NOCs in 9 months. When we looked at it, there was a lot of confusion," said the officer involved in the investigation. "Some Indian citizens have even gone abroad with fake NOCs." Investigating officers say why they came to Kathmandu and were ready to spend so much money while there are 35 international airports in India. It has been found in the commission's investigation that even the accused who is on the wanted list of the gold smuggling case in India fled from the Tribhuvan International Airport. 

The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu had sent a letter to the Immigration Department asking Jageshwar Shah and his son Asif Shah to be blacklisted because they were involved in the 95 kg gold smuggling case on March 19 (6 Chait). However, it has been confirmed during the investigation that Jageshwar went to Dubai from Tribhuvan International Airport the day after he was blacklisted. Asif had already gone abroad before receiving the letter from the embassy. Although the Immigration Department formed a committee to investigate this, it was acquitted citing a technical error. 

After receiving information about human smuggling from Tribhuvan International Airport under the name of visit visa, the Commission had written to investigate twice when Congress leader Ramesh Akbar was the Home Minister. According to a commissioner, a letter was also sent to the office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers after the home administration did not show interest. Although the Prime Minister's Office instructed the Home Office to investigate, the Home Administration turned a blind eye. After that, the authority started to closely monitor. 

"We had prepared to arrest the employees with evidence and assigned employees from the commission under disguise," said the commissioner, "but suddenly the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred the then joint secretary of airport immigration, Bhattarai." After that, the team assigned by the commission entered the airport immigration on 7th of June and arrested Joint Secretary Bhattarai. On the same day, Bhattarai was released on bail and the investigation was started. 

An investigating officer said that Bhattarai had also hinted about 'higher level involvement' during the initial interrogation. According to him, there was a need to investigate the then Home Secretary Gokarnamani Duwadi along with the then Home Minister Ramesh Ukhtar and some members of his secretariat. The home administration led by the author gave Bhattarai the responsibility of airport immigration. 

Joint Secretary Bhattarai was already a controversial official. He was also involved in the corruption of buying tripal for earthquake victims. When he was the local development officer of Kathmandu, he was tried on corruption charges, later he was not only acquitted, but he was also promoted to joint secretary. Joint Secretary Suresh Panthi, who held the leadership for only four months, was removed to give Bhattarai the responsibility of airport immigration after the formation of the Congress-UML coalition government. 

After the investigation was started by the authority, it was revealed that the officer Bimal Paudel, who had previously been tried in the case of the visit visa case, was also working in the Home Minister's Secretariat. Only after this was made public, the then Home Minister, the author, removed Paudel from his duties. Paudel was a defendant in an organized fraud case related to visit visas filed on 18th March 2080 in District Court, Kathmandu. On this matter, the opposition party including RSVP in the parliament demanded the resignation of the then home minister. Bhattarai was in direct contact with the

travel agency. According to the officials involved in the

investigation, it has also been revealed that Joint Secretary Tirtharaj Bhattarai is in regular contact with the travel agency that sends him abroad on a visit visa. It has been found that Joint Secretary Bhattarai has repeatedly communicated with Balkrishna Khadka, the owner of Greenline Holidays, from the private number of 985118...

While Khadka called him 10 times, Bhattarai himself called him 22 times in the details collected by the authority. Khadka has also been brought under investigation by the commission. Kavita Paudel, an employee of CIST College, has also been dragged into the investigation of where Bhattarai managed the collected money. It has also been found that money has been deposited regularly in the account of Khagendra Subedi of Bhaktapur, who is in regular contact with Paudel. But Subedi claimed in the Commission that it was his business money. 

Commission also conducted digital forensic examination of three mobile phones of Joint Secretary Bhattarai. Officials say that the investigation has been concluded by including its report. "We have concluded the investigation by checking where the money collected in the name of visit visa was sent," said an official involved in the investigation, "a case will be registered soon against all those involved in this racket."

The investigation of the Spain case has been stalled. The investigation started by the police regarding the entry of an unrelated person into Europe by a gang by charging up to 1.5 million rupees to participate in a program attended by the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been stopped in the middle. 

After some young people who went to the United Nations program did not return, there was chaos in Nepal. After this matter was raised in Parliament, an inquiry committee was formed under the leadership of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Hovindra Bogti of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB). During the investigation conducted by the

committee, it has been found that 117 Nepali citizens have flown to Spain from Kathmandu. Police claim that most of them have returned. But a larger number of those who reached Spain from New Delhi in India were hiding in Europe.

They took visas from the Spanish Embassy in Delhi to participate in the conference that lasted from June 30 to July 2. It was seen that he had taken a visa from the embassy in Delhi to go to Spain. After that, we wrote a letter asking for details on how many Nepalis got visas to participate in the conference," said a member of the investigation committee, "but they did not reply to the first letter.

Then the CIB sent a letter to the police headquarters, from there the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter to the Nepali Embassy in Delhi through the Ministry of Home Affairs. But since the Nepali Embassy did not correspond with the Spanish Embassy in Delhi, the details could not be obtained, said a member of the investigation committee. "Very few had gone from Nepal, most of them had gone from India," he said.

An official of the embassy in Delhi says that the correspondence was not done because it is not ethical to ask the other embassy 'Why did you give the visa?' "After the police sent the letter, it was forwarded to us, but we stopped because it was not appropriate to ask the other embassy for that matter," said the official. Bogti, the coordinator of the