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FKJGP ‘arrests’ 19 migrant workers

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By Our Reporter

Shillong: The FKJGP Upper-Shillong Circle on Monday apprehended 19 migrant workers from Upper Shillong area for their failure to produce legal documents which included the work permit and labour license.

The FKJGP suspected that these workers, who hailed from Dhubri and Kokrajhar districts of Assam, were refugees seeking shelter in Meghalaya in the wake of riots in Assam recently.

“The arrest of these people proves that law enforcement in the State is very weak and the presence of the Infiltration Check Gate at Byrnihat is of no use. If the lawmakers are neglecting their duties by allowing every migrant to infiltrate into the State then it would leave us with no other choice but to do what is needed for our people,” FKJGP Upper-Shillong Circle general secretary Donald Nongsteng said in a statement on Monday.

The Federation also warned the contractors – Wanjingshai Sunn from Marbisu, Mawngap and JS Khardewsaw from Mawkyrwat – to take upon themselves the responsibility to deport the migrant workers to their home towns.

The Federation, meanwhile, expressed anguish over the lackadaisical attitude of the government towards implementing the Inner Line Permit in the State.

 

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