Mohamed Thaver

Since Saturday, the authorities have been stopping people walking on the highway towards Gujarat and explaining to them that since the lockdown is in force, they cannot be allowed to go ahead.

The fact that provisions were not made for migrant labourers to get their daily bread or return home while announcing the lockdown on Tuesday, forced many to start walking over 500 km to their homes in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

The accident occurred around 3 am on Saturday. The truck driver, who had managed to flee after the accident, was later arrested.

The four migrants were part of a group of seven who wanted to reach their villages in Rajasthan after crossing into Gujarat.

Apart from being vulnerable to COVID-19 because of their age, several of the senior citizens housed at the A1 Snehanjali care home are suffering from dementia.

Deshmukh said that those being released would include inmates behind bars for offences with punishment up to seven years. However, convicts who are serving sentence for serious offences like terror and major economic offences will not be eligible.

Kalamboli, the entry point to the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, saw massive jams as residents tried to move out of Mumbai in droves cramped in private cars.

India’s unorganised workers make up 82.7 per cent or 39.14 crores of the total 47.41 crore estimated employed persons, according to last NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey, 2011-12.

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However, this has not meant less work for the police, as they have been responding to several complaints about people in chawls and buildings who have returned from abroad and are not staying indoors. Police are also hesitant to arrest people as it would mean taking precautions for them as well.

While mosques, including the famous Haji Ali Dargah and Mahim Dargah and those belonging to the Shia community, disallowed gatherings, Friday Namaaz was prayed in congregation as per tradition.

With COVID-19 cases spreading fast, and India imposing flight restrictions, Maharashtra Tour Organisers' Association (MTOA), which has 130 tour operators registered with it, says small companies have asked as high as 40 per cent of their employees to go on leave or take pay cuts.

While civil society organisations have reached out to some, most have found themselves vulnerable to the disease that has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.

Over the past one month, a slew of incidents have surfaced in which history-sheeters, operating out of Mumbai, have started making extortion demands.

The commissioner also said that priority should also be placed on prevention of crimes. “He emphasised that the police should have a good network using which they should be able to foil crime,” the officer said.

After taking charge from Barve at around 3pm on Saturday, Singh told the media, “Our priority will be to tackle street crimes and ensuring safety of women.”

During the course of the hearing on January 17, 2018, the HC asked the Mumbai police commissioner to conduct and enquiry through the Joint Commissioner of Police to look into allegations of connivance of police.

The sanction came five months after the CBI sought permission to prosecute the police personnel for allegedly forcibly evicting the developer of a 16-acre plot, worth Rs 60 crore, at Dahisar in 2017.

The police said that the two reports indicate that he did not died due to physical injuries or from consuming any substance.