KATHMANDU: The Department of Immigration has returned 76 passengers bound to a foreign country based on the recommendation of a Lalitpur-based financial cooperatives institution. They were returned from the Tribhuvan International Airport.

TIA Chief Immigration Officer Pushpa Raj Shahi shared that the passengers were returned after their objective to go abroad was doubtful. “We sought documents after coming across some suspects.

They were scared when we told them that the Department of Immigration would ask for information through a letter to the cooperatives. Some of them then returned from the airport voluntarily”. Shahi told RSS.

Around 70 percent of them were women. According to the Department, they showed a letter from the Lalitpur-based Shuvechha Multi-Purpose Cooperatives Organization. “This is subjected to investigation for the Department”, Shahi added.

The Immigration Office would inform the Department of Immigration and Home Ministry in writing about the incident, he added. The passengers were bound to fly to Dubai on Saturday evening.