More than 1,000 migrant employees, most of them from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, gathered close to Bandra railway station in Mumbai on Tuesday afternoon. They have been demanding that the state authorities make transport preparations in order that they’ll return to their native cities and villages.
Migrant employees gathered exterior Bandra West Railway Station on Tuesday afternoon as they defy lockdown norms and request to go away for his or her native locations after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced the extension of nationwide lockdown until May three within the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Mumbai. (Image: PTI)
An FIR has been registered in opposition to a tv journalist over his report that trains would restart, which can have prompted gathering of migrants in suburban Bandra on Tuesday, a police official mentioned.
The accused, Rahul Kulkarni, based mostly in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra, has been detained and police are within the strategy of bringing him to Mumbai, he mentioned.
In a latest information report, Kulkarni mentioned Jan Sadharan particular trains would resume for individuals stranded as a result of
lockdown, he mentioned.
He has been booked below IPC Sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant and 269, 270 (negligent, malignant act prone to unfold an infection of illness harmful to life), 117 (abetting fee of offence by public), the official mentioned.
More than 1,000 migrant employees, most of them from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, gathered close to Bandra railway station right here on Tuesday afternoon.
They have been demanding that the state authorities make transport preparations in order that they’ll return to their native cities and villages.
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