Labourers in Mumbai defy coronavirus lockdown as desperation peaks

A probe into the matter has started and it is being enquired if the workers were already employed, or had been laid off

Tossing social distancing concerns away, more than a thousand migrant labourers, mainly from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, converged outside Bandra West railway station in Mumbai, hoping to book train tickets home.
 

Surviving on food from charitable institutions and living in cramped houses, the distressed people swarmed the station at around 3 pm, without any plan in mind.
 

However, they were not ready to move from their sit-in, even after the authorities, police, and a local maulana pleaded repeatedly for them to return. Losing patience, someone threw a stone at a policeman deployed to cordon off the place. The