Pb cops intercept buses ferrying migrants on fake passes
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Sukhmeet Bhasin
Tribune News Service
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Mansa, June 14
The Mansa district police today arrested six bus drivers for illegally transporting brickkiln labourers to Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh on fake curfew passes. The bus company owners, all residents of Mansa, have been booked. SSP Narinder Bhargav said the fake passes were purportedly issued by the authorities in Bathinda.
He said the migrants — including 150 men, 80 women and 115 children — were provided drinking water, breakfast and lunch. They had paid the bus company a hefty sum to be ferried back to their home state. The police arranged buses with valid passes for the migrants who left for their onward journey after a health check, the SSP added.
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2 buses impounded in Amloh
Fatehgarh Sahib: Two buses carrying migrant labourers were intercepted in Mandi Gobindgarh on Sunday. The SDM (Amloh), AS Sharma, said one of the buses was carrying 30 migrants. The driver claimed he had ferried them from Purnia district in Bihar. The other bus, carrying migrants from Ambala, had dropped 15 labourers at Sirhind. OC
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