Kathmandu, April 11 -- The Nepal government is in a fix over how to handle four Bhutanese refugees who were recently deported by the United States to Thimphu but who later arrived in Jhapa district after Bhutanese authorities expelled them. The refugees had earlier left Nepal for the US under the third-country resettlement programme.

Immigration authorities in Jhapa district have kept them in custody after four of 10 Bhutanese refugees deported from the US to Bhutan crossed the Indian border via Jaigaon and Siliguri and sneaked into Nepal.

The immigration authorities have detained them as per the immigration law, said Gopal Kumar Adhikari, chief district officer of the Jhapa.

Officials had expected Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to raise...