Company to bear cost of repatriating Manjaya Sada’s body from Malaysia

The body of Manjay Sada, a 32-year-old migrant worker from ward 6 of Bishnupur Rural Municipality in Saptari, will be brought back to Nepal at the expense of his employer in Malaysia, officials from the Nepali Embassy in Kuala Lumpur said. An agreement was reached last Tuesday between the Nepali embassy and the Flas Company in Klang, where Sada had been working. Under the agreement, the company will cover all costs related to repatriation, including transportation of the body through a casket company. The embassy said the company has already initiated procedures to obtain the death certificate, post-mortem report and police documentation from the hospital and relevant authorities. Once the death certificate is issued, officials in Nepal will be asked to provide proof of kinship and details of the person receiving the body. Ticket booking and other formalities will follow before the body is sent. However, the process has been complicated as Sada, who had been working without legal documents, did not possess a passport. Embassy officials said identification of the body could require DNA testing, which may delay repatriation. Otherwise, the process is expected to take up to two weeks. Sada had left for Malaysia 12 years ago at the age of 20 in search of work to support his family. According to his family, he did not receive the job or salary promised and initially struggled to repay a Rs150,000 loan he had taken to migrate. He later found relatively stable employment as a se