The Foreign Employment Tribunal has decided to imprison and fine the operators of 53 foreign employment companies for sending Nepali workers abroad based on forged documents.
A bench of the chair of the Foreign Employment Tribunal Ramesh Kumar Khatri and members Nisha Baniya and Dr Gopichandra Bhattarai sentenced 53 operators of foreign employment companies to six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 100,000 for sending workers abroad with fake documents.
The bench found the operators guilty of violating Section 47 (1) of the Foreign Employment Act, 2064 BS, and imposed a prison sentence and a fine of Rs. 100,000.
The bench sentenced foreign employment entrepreneur Sher Bahadur Maharjan to three months in prison and fined him Rs 50,000, while Anil Kumar Maharjan, an employee of the company, has been acquitted.
