Human traffickers have started searching for new routes after the government banned the Nepalis from going to Malaysia and Gulf countries on visit visa.

Claiming that the police officials deployed at the Tribhuvan International Airport, airlines staffers and high-ranking officials of the Department of Immigration have been helping in human trafficking, the Ministry of Home Affairs banned the people from going to Malaysia and Gulf countries on visit visa.

The government has decided to tighten the visit visa so as to break the chain of human traffickers and to save the people from getting into trouble after landing in the destination countries.

It has been found that the human traffickers have started using the routes of India after the Nepal government banned the people from going to Malaysia and Gulf countries on visit visa.

Some manpower agencies have been sending people to Malaysia and Gulf countries on visit visas in collusion with the high-ranking officials of the Department of Immigration by charging a huge amount.

The Department of Immigration on Thursday sent two women back home who were going to Dubai via India on a visit visa by changing the routes.

The Department of Immigration at the Tribhuvan International Airport had refused to grant permission to Sange Dolma Lama and Phul Maya Tamang of Sindhupalchok who were going to India.

The main reason was that the Immigration officials found the visa of Dubai in their passports.

During the interrogation, the duo had said that they were going to India. But they could give a specific reason about going to India.

An official at the Department of Immigration said that the manpower agencies have been sending people to Malaysia and Gulf countries via Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India after the government banned the people from going to the Gulf countries on visit visa from the Tribhuvan International Airport.

A woman, who was going to Dubai via Pakistan, was also sent back home a week ago.