Mumbai: Nearly300 migrant workers used trucks which were ostensibly carrying essential commodities from Telangana to Rajasthan. Maharashtra Police found on Thursday, the workers who were crammed inside two container trucks during their routine checks at Telangana in the border district of Yavatmal.

The workers belong to Rajasthan had chosen this surreptitious and dangerous mode of travel as they wanted to return home. On the routine inspection of the vehicles on the road, the police and revenue officials who were on the checking spot shocked the way chosen by the workers to go homes. Desperate migrant workers heading home amid lockdown on account of Covid- 19 pandemic are emerging from many parts of the country.

According to the official sources “The officials at Pandharkavda toll booth found something was fishy as the drivers could not give a satisfactory answer as to what the trucks were carrying and where”. “Inside, they found some 300 daily wagers in two containers. Some of them said they wanted to go back to their home state, Rajasthan and could not find any other mode of transport,” he said.