Delhi: 57 migrant workers try to flee shelter home, 29 caught

DCP (West) Deepak Purohit said, “Of the 57 people, one had been kept separately at the shelter home. Seventeen people were instantly apprehended by police and the shelter home staff and sent back inside. Out of the 40 escaped migrants, 12 were intercepted by the police and sent back to the shelter home.”

He said that on Monday, the migrant workers were shifted from a Punjabi Bagh school to a newly constructed shelter home at Tilak Nagar. Purohit said, “Once they were moved to the new shelter home, one migrant labourer called Kallu misguided the group and they started creating a nuisance.”

Migrant labourers in the capital who are found walking back to their homes in different states are sent back to shelter homes.