Sri Lankan immigration authorities on Thursday arrested forty four Indian men for overstaying their visa for nearly three months, according to a media report.
The men have been arrested by the Department of Immigration and Emigration from a construction site in Slave Island, a suburb in Colombo, the Daily Mirror reported.
“The arrested men are between 25 to 50 years of age,” Assistant Controller (Investigations) MGV Kariyawasam said.
Kariyawasam added that the men had not been paid salaries on a regular basis, the report said.
“The men will be sent to a detention center,” the officer added.
In addition, passports of about 18 Indian nations, who were working at the same construction site, were seized as their visas did not permit them to work at that place.
Similarly, early this month, at least 27 Indians were arrested in Jaffna city for overstaying their tourist visas in Sri Lanka.
