Patiala, July 13
Following a letter to Punjab Chief Secretary SC Agrawal by the Protector General of Emigrants (PGE) Vinay Sahni pertaining to the increasing number of illegal Indian immigrants in Malaysia, the district police and DCs have been asked to check the menace.
The PGE has further clarified that if the illegal Indian immigrants continue to enter Malaysia, the Malaysian Government may impose a ban on the Indian workers, as it had done in the case of the Bangladeshi workers.
“The Malaysian Government is alarmed at the rise of the cases of human trafficking from India and this is beginning to have a direct impact on our efforts to rescue and repatriate the Indian nationals from Malaysia,” states the letter, in possession of The Tribune.
The Punjab Home Department has also asked all the DCs and police chiefs of the state to ensure that no Punjab resident uses unfair means to go abroad, especially Malaysia. Documents available with The Tribune suggest that the Indian High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur, had shot a letter to the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs conveying its concern over the number of suspected human trafficking cases.
“A Malaysian court had recently sentenced 19 Indian citizens for human trafficking. In an earlier case, 27 Indian nationals were rescued by the High Commission after intervention,” reads a part of the letter.
Meanwhile, numerous Punjab residents have allegedly been using Malaysia as a transit route to gain entry into Pakistan without getting the same mentioned on their passport.
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