100 migrants found in trucks bound for Bihar
100 migrants found in trucks bound for Bihar
New Delhi, May 10
The Delhi police detected nearly 100 migrants hiding inside two trucks in a desperate bid to reach home in Bihar, and arrested the drivers of the vehicles for illegally transporting them during a nationwide lockdown, officials said on Sunday.
The trucks were intercepted near southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj on Saturday night. One of the trucks had 63 migrants and the other was carrying 34, they said.
Driver Upender Singh Yadav was ferrying migrants to Lakhisarai district. The other truck driven by Dharmendra Kumar Yadav was carrying 34 migrants to Madhubani. — PTI
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