Mumbai (Maharashtra): A man who allegedly incited migrant labourers to protest here amid lockdown was arrested by the police on Wednesday.
The man, Vinay Dubey, who was earlier detained for threatening to launch an agitation on April 18, was booked under Sections 117, 153 A, 188, 269, 270 and 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 3 of The Epidemic Diseases Act.
He will be produced before a local court later today.
Dubey has been accused of inciting migrants through his social media posts calling for action.
#COVID19: A massive crowd comprising migrant labourers reached outside #Bandra West railway station hoping to get transportation and get back home as they expected the lockdown to end today on April 14. #COVID2019 #Lockdown2 #CoronaInMaharashtra pic.twitter.com/EQYHBThQVq
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More than 1,000 migrant workers here gathered outside the station in Bandra on Tuesday and demanded transportation arrangements to go back to their hometowns, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the extension of the ongoing nationwide lockdown till May 3. (ANI)