Two men were arrested for allegedly trying to ferry migrant workers from the city to West Bengal in a canter without the requisite movement passes in Ashok Vihar Phase-3 on Friday late night. The police said the accused persons had asked for ₹1.25 lakh from 53 migrant workers, which included women and children, to ferry them to Malda district in West Bengal.
According to the police, the incident was reported around 1am when the police received a tip-off that two men were asking migrants to board the canter near Chotu Ram Chowk.
The two accused persons have been identified as Jai Prakash, a native of Kanpur, and Raviful, a native of Malda, West Bengal. The police said the duo had fixed the price for transporting people to West Bengal at ₹1.25 lakh.
Ved Parkash, station house officer (SHO), Sector 5 police station, said, “A police team rushed to spot and arrested the duo after they could not produce the movement passes. The migrant workers were taken to a government relief centre in Sector 15,” said SHO.
A case was registered against the suspects under sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) and Section 51(b) of Disaster Management Act at Sector 5 police station on Saturday, said the police.
On Thursday, the police had arrested two men in separate cases for allegedly trying to ferry passengers to other states without carrying movement passes. In the first case, police had arrested a bus owner and driver, who were looking for passengers on MG Road and trying to take them to Jharkhand. In the second case, the police had arrested a canter driver, who had come to Gurugram to drop off a banana shipment and was looking to ferry passengers in the cargo space of the canter to Uttar Pradesh.
{{/usCountry}}On Thursday, the police had arrested two men in separate cases for allegedly trying to ferry passengers to other states without carrying movement passes. In the first case, police had arrested a bus owner and driver, who were looking for passengers on MG Road and trying to take them to Jharkhand. In the second case, the police had arrested a canter driver, who had come to Gurugram to drop off a banana shipment and was looking to ferry passengers in the cargo space of the canter to Uttar Pradesh.
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