93 Migrant Workers Arrested For Allegedly Defying Lockdown In Gujarat, Attacking Cops
93 migrant labourers had been arrested in Gujarat’s Surat town. (Representational symbol)
Surat:
A minimum of 93 migrant labourers had been arrested in Gujarat’s Surat town for allegedly defying the national lockdown and attacking police, an authentic stated on Monday.
State of affairs was disturbing in Ganesh Nagar and Tirupati Nagar localities overdue Sunday evening after just about 500 migrant staff dwelling there got here on roads, tough transportation facility to achieve their local puts, Deputy Commissioner of Police Vidhi Chaudhari stated.
Various other people hailing from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are living in Surat’s Pandesara house, the place each the localities are located, and paintings in powerlooms and textile processing gadgets right here, every other police authentic stated. “When the police had been seeking to persuade them to stay indoors, they began pelting stones on the safety team of workers. A number of police automobiles had been broken within the stone pelting,” Mr Chaudhari stated.
The police fired 30 teargas shells to disperse the gang, stated Mr Chaudhari, whose authentic automobile was once additionally broken within the incident. Whilst some miscreants had been arrested on Sunday evening, some others had been hung on Monday, she stated.
“Now we have lodged an FIR towards a mob of 500 other people and arrested 93 of them. They had been charged underneath sections for rioting, attacking police, destructive public assets and likewise underneath provisions of the Epidemic Sicknesses Act for defying restrictions,” the authentic stated.
