KATHMANDU: Eight staff members from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Immigration Office have been transferred in connection with an investigation into a visit visa case.
The Ministry of Home Affairs also reassigned a deputy sub-inspector and a computer operator amid suspicions of high-level involvement in the matter.
Among those transferred, Deputy Sub-Inspector Prem Prasad Poudel and Deputy Sub-Inspector Bir Bhadra Joshi have been moved to the District Administration Office in Kathmandu, while Deputy Sub-Inspector Nara Bahadur Thapa has been posted to the District Administration Office in Banke.
In addition, computer operators Uden Subedi, Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Pawan Gurung, Dhanraj Upadhyay, and assistant computer operator Kamala Shrestha have been reassigned to the Department of Prison Management or its subordinate offices.
Previously, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had taken Joint Secretary Tirtharaj Bhattarai of the Ministry of Home Affairs into custody and recorded his statement.
Bhattarai was apprehended from the Home Ministry on Jestha 20, the same day he was transferred there from the Department of Immigration.
The CIAA has also seized Bhattarai’s mobile phone and sent it for forensic analysis.
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