Kathmandu,22 April: A total of 122 passengers who were bound to fly abroad through the only international airport in the country-Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA)-on Wednesday have been denied the permission to travel after their PCR test report were suspected to be fake.
The reports issued by the Sinamangal-based Suriya Healthcare Pvt Ltd and Merit Multicare Centres were suspected to be fraud as eight staffers working in those healthcare centres were arrested on the charges of producing fake PCR test reports on Tuesday.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority Nepal, 54 Sharjah (UAE) bound passengers via Air Arabia, 32 Oman bound passengers via Salam Air and 36 Kuwait bound passengers via Jazeera Airways were disembarked from the aircrafts. More than 60 off-loaded passengers were Indian nationals.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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