16 Nepalese females hiding in a house in Avissawella seeking migration ... nabbed

16 Nepalese females hiding in a house in Avissawella seeking migration ... nabbed

18 Nepalese damsels were found yesterday from a house in Avissawella and with this incident, information about a new kind of racket has been exposed.

As Nepalese females are prohibited from

securing domestic employment in the Middle East the racket is to send them to Sri Lanka on tourist visa and subsequently to send them for domestic employment to Middle East in the guise of Sri Lankans. This racket has been organised by a group of Indians while some Sri Lankans who practically assist them as representatives has been revealed. These females have been virtually imprisoned in a room of 10 - 12 feet in a house in Avissawella and they were taken into custody yesterday by officers of the Emigration and Immigration Department.

It came to be known that this group has been sent to Sri Lanka from Nepal across India. Clues about the racket first came into focus from an article published in a website of Nepal. What was mentioned there was information about a group of Nepalese females detained in a house in Bambalapitiya in Sri Lanka. After it came to be known, the Emigration and Immigration officers checked in various ways; but there was no such group in a house in Bambalapitiya. However it was learned that the officers have received a clue about such a group staying at a house in Avissawella. Under this situation they were surrounded this way.

According to investigations relevant to this incident it was found that Nepalese women have been sent to the Middle East on several occasions across Sri Lanka and it was further exposed that a number of locations have been used as detention houses. Steps are being taken to expel these Nepalese females back to Nepal and further investigations are underway.