Non-payment of fines forces 100 Indian nationals to miss flights

  • Date: 09-Aug-2020
  • Source: Times of Oman
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Oman
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Non-payment of fines forces 100 Indian nationals to miss flights

Embassy of India in Muscat. - File picture

Muscat: More than 100 Indian nationals in Oman who are flying back home on repatriation flights have been denied from boarding them, due to non-payment of fines here in the Sultanate.Expats who haven't paid their fines are given the choice of paying them at the airport. Those who are unable to do so must first clear all their payments, after which they will be accommodated on subsequent flights.Officials at the Embassy of India in Muscat added that fines were not the only reason some Indians were required to stay back: some foreign nationals in the country had other pending matters to resolve, such as manpower issues and court cases, that prevented them from flying home.“We had a case where there was an Indian