Surat: 41 migrants arrested for violence in Pali

SACHIN: The uncertainties over their return to native states has left the temper of migrants frayed.
On Wednesday night, migrants in DM Nagar of Pali locality in Sachin GIDC pelted stones at the police team and broke the barricades. Around 41 were arrested and bandobast was tightened in the area. The workers were upset as police strictly enforced lockdown rules inside the containment zone and did not allow residents to go out.
Majority of the labourers involved area are from Bihar.
In Bhestan, a group of around 50 migrant workers from Odisha staged protest near Sidhharth Nagar and burnt bicycle tyres on the road claiming that their train tickets did not get booked while some other people who applied later got the tickets first. The workers were also complaining that they are not getting food for the last two days.
Police reached the spot and dispersed the crowd. The workers claimed that they have paid over Rs 1 lakh for a group to book tickets but now they are not getting the tickets.
On Thursday evening too, nearly 1,000 migrants from Jharkhand gathered in Godadara after a message of train tickets to their native state being issued went viral. The crowd gathered near office of one Rajesh Varma who has been collecting money from the migrants to book tickets on their behalf.
"Some miscreants shared the message that tickets are being issued in Godadara after which people gathered. There was no violence though," said a police officer in Limbayat police station.