The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of India said that the immigration authorities have no role in stopping a Nepali citizen at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Shambhavi Adhikari, who was heading to Berlin, was later sent back to Kathmandu. “The incident has been wrongly portrayed as bias/discrimination against Nepali citizens,” the MHA said.

In a statement released by it on Saturday (November 1, 2025), the Ministry clarified that the Indian immigration authorities have no role to play in this entire episode.

“The said passenger arrived from Kathmandu by Air India and was transiting through Delhi. She was stopped while boarding the connecting flight of Qatar Airways. It was the airlines which decided not to let her undertake her onward travel to Germany, considering her visa

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