TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

• With the complaint of the returnee victims to Nepal Police, the CIB team arrested four
persons (Mr. Gurung of Kaski, Mr. Rai of Solu, Mr. Bahadur of Chitawan, Mrs. Rai of
Udayapur) from Kathmandu on the charge that they involved in smuggling of Nepali to
Macau. The victims were deceived of offering Security Guards, Drivers and Receptionists in
Supper Markets at the rate of Rs. 250,000/month in Macau. The accused collected Rs.
850,000 per person. The victims were brought to Bangkok and kept in a hotel for a month as
bondage. The perpetrators eventually ran away.
• On September 25, 2014, the CIB team arrested Mr. Tamang (32 years) of Rautahat district
from Kathmandu. He pretended marrying a girl of 23 year, saying that he has had a house in
Kathmandu and he lives in New Delhi for work. By making fake marriage, the accused
brought the victim to New Delhi via Kathmandu-Hetauda-Birgunj. He sold the victim in a
‘prostitution’ place at Om Bihar area of New Delhi and ran away. On the next day, the victim
was being transferred to another place by riding in a Riksha. She cried a lot and she was
rescued by the Riksha-puller and informed to Maiti India. Maiti India and CIB Nepal
repatriated her to Nepal. The accused confessed to having sold the victim in Indian Rs.
500,000 and from that money he bought some gold.
• On July 21, 2015, the Indian Police intercepted 27 Nepali young girls from Indira Gandhi
International Airport, New Delhi that they were being sent to Gulf countries illegally. The
victims were repatriated to Nepal on August 4, 2015 with the joint effort of GoN, Nepali
Embassy to India. With the information of the victims, the Nepal police arrested some
perpetrators in Nepal and registered the case under the HTTA 2007. Two accused had
already been arrested in New Delhi by Indian Police and a diplomatic dialogue was going on
to expatriate the culprits.
• On September 15, 2015, the CIB team arrested Mrs. Limbu (33 years) from Pokhara and
Mr.Pariyar (42 years) from Kathmandu on the information that they involved in trafficking of
their own mother, mother-in-law and a woman to Saudi Arabia via Gurgaon, Haryana. The
victims were transferred to New Delhi – Gurgaon travelling from a Kathmandu-New Delhi
bus. The victims were rescued from an apartment of a staff of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia
to India in Gurgaon, Haryana. The victims were made bondage in his apartment.
Despite these efforts, law enforcement status appears to be still inadequate. One example of this is
that there is relatively large number of trafficking accused persons absconded vis-à-vis the arrested
persons. A total of 132 in FY 2013/14 and 70 in FY 2014/15 were absconded accused persons.
Majority of run-away accused persons in 2013/14 were from eastern development region (39%) and
it was from western development region (30%) in FY 2014/15 (Table 6.1).
Table 6.1 Number of trafficking accused persons absconded (pharar aviyukta), FY 2013/14 and 2014/15, Nepal
FY 2013/14 FY 2014/15
Number Percent Number Percent
Development
region
Eastern 52 39.4 7 10.0
Central 20 15.2 14 20.0
Western 11 8.3 21 30.0
Mid-western 15 11.4 7 10.0
Far-western 11 8.3 4 5.7
Valley 23 17.4 15 21.4
Not stated 2 2.9
Sex
Male 109 82.6 60 85.7
Female 23 17.4 10 14.3
Total 132 100.0 70 100.0
Source: Data obtained from Women and Children Service Directorate, Nepal Police, 2015.
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