The Immigration Department has opened investigations based on a circulating video clip allegedly depicted the plight of 48 migrant workers subjected to forced labour.

"The director-general has ordered for investigations into the video, which is now going viral on social media, to be conducted immediately," said a highly-placed Immigration Department source.

Earlier today, P Muniandy, the political secretary to Minister in the Prime Minister's Department P Waythamoorthy, lodged a police report in Kedah after viewing the video clip.

Muniandy claimed that if the claims turn out to be true, it could constitute a case of wrongful restraint and confinement, which is illegal under the Penal Code and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007.