Passport Scandal In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 28, 2011: the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has arrested Immigration Officer Bhuminanda Bhandari a partner in the crime of misusing the passports of members of parliament Gayatri Saha and Biswanath Pratap Yadav; Superintendent of Police Rajendra Singh Bhandari said that Bhuminanda Bhandari sent two Nepali nationals holding the diplomatic passports belonging to the members of parliament abroad without stamping the passports at the airport in Kathmandu, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of April 28, 2011 writes.
The Nepal Police arrested Gayatri Shah, 26, the youngest member of parliament nominated by the Nepali Janata Dal to the 601-seat parliament in 2008 along with Bishwanath Prasad Yadav, a fellow lawmaker nominated by the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum-Democratic presided over by Former Deputy Prime Minister Vijaya Gacchedar on April 19, 2011 on the charge of misusing their special passports while leaving the parliament house.
In January the Custom Officer in Abu Dhabi found Nepalese man and woman holding fake passports and sent them back to Nepal exposing the misdeeds of the two parliamentarians. They have been holding the passports belonging to the parliamentarians replacing the pictures of the parliamentarians with their own pictures.