New Delhi: Earlier this week, Jamaica forced a planeload of Indian nationals to return from Kingston, marking the second instance within six months of a chartered flight filled with Indian passengers departing from a West Asian city being denied entry upon arrival.
On May 2, a chartered flight with a German crew and around 250 Indian passengers landed at Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport from Dubai. On arrival, the 253 passengers were stopped by Jamaican authorities who were suspicious that this was a trafficking operation. All of them were eventually allowed to return to Dubai earlier this week.
The MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal confirmed that Jamaica had forced the planeload of Indian passengers to leave the country.
“We understand that a Germany registered chartered flight with Indians on board landed in Kingston from Dubai on 2 May for tourism purposes. They had prior hotel bookings. The local authorities were not satisfied with them as tourists. The flight…
