A few days after a Nepali public health expert claimed on social media that Indian officials stopped and deported her from Delhi airport while she was en route from Kathmandu to Germany, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a statement on Saturday (November 1, 2025) denying any involvement. The ministry stated that “Indian immigration authorities have no role in this entire episode” and said the incident had been “wrongly portrayed as bias or discrimination against Nepali citizens.”
Earlier in the week, the Nepali citizen, Shambhawi Adhikari, posted on Facebook that she was stopped at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport during her transit to Berlin for the World Health Summit. “I hold a Nepali passport — I was doubted. Because I was from a small country, I was seen as a potential risk, not as a youth delegate, not as a learner, not as a dreamer,” she wrote.
