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Bribe-for-Visa racket exposed in Rajasthan

The Home Ministry said on Monday that it was reviewing its internal processes after a Ministry official was arrested by the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly extorting money from Hindu migrants from Pakistan.

The Union home ministry will hold an internal inquiry into alleged irregularities in the process of granting long-term visa to Pakistani immigrants in the wake of the arrest of one of its officials on charges of accepting bribe from some applicants, officials said.

P.K. Mishra, a senior secretariat assistant in the Home Ministry was arrested last week, along with three middlemen, as he was caught accepting money from them at a hotel in Jodhpur. The official visited the city regularly to attend hearings on writ petitions from Pakistani Hindu migrants in the Rajasthan High Court.

The ministry has also ordered officials to clear the pending applications of religious minorities from Pakistan seeking Indian citizenship or extension of their long-term visa.

“We have sought a report from the Rajasthan police and based on it, we will conduct a further inquiry,” said a Ministry spokesperson.

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New Delhi: The Foreign ministery on Monday released a statement that the Indian embassy camp office in Nepal’s Biratnagar that was hit by a minor explosion in April will be relocated.

The relief camp office located in Biratnagar, 380 kilometers from the capital Katmandu was opened in 2008 for relief work after the massive floods broke and swept the region along the Koshi river in Bihar and near the border with Nepal.

MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that “The purpose for which this camp office was opened has been fulfilled. India had already decided to wind up the camp office and relocate the personnel.”

“This decision was conveyed by Prime Minister Modi to his Nepalese counterpart during his visit to Nepal last week. The PM of Nepal thanked the PM for informing him about this decision,” Mr. Kumar said.

According to media reports, the temporary office in Biratnagar was mainly used for issuing passes to vehicles going to India after a 17-km-long stretch of the East-West Highway was damaged due to floodwater.

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