Bandra Migrant Crisis: Vinay Dubey, Accused Of Instigating Workers, Arrested By Mumbai Police

Dubey had uploaded a video of his on social media account in which he had talked about travel arrangements for migrants, who are stranded due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown.

Mumbai: Migrant workers gather outside Bandra West Railway Station as they defy lockdown norms and request to leave for their native places after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the extension of nationwide lockdown till May 3 in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Mumbai, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Migrant workers were hoping to get back home as they expected the lockdown to end on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)

New Delhi: Vinay Dubey, the man who was detained last night in Navi Mumbai in connection with the gathering of migrant labourers, has been formally arrested by Mumbai police now, under IPC sections 117, 153 A, 188, 269, 270, 505 (2) 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 messages on his social media accounts which may have contributed to the gathering of a large number of migrant workers in suburban Bandra on Tuesday afternoon, an official said. He was detained by the Navi Mumbai police on Tuesday for threatening a huge protest by migrant labourers in Kurla, Mumbai, on April 18. He was apprehended from Airoli in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday night, an official  was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. Also Watch:Who is Vinay Dubey and why has he been detained? After handing him over to the Mumbai police, he will be in custody of the Azad Maidan police, where the process of registering an offence against him was going on, he said. Dubey had uploaded a video of his on social media account in which he had talked about travel arrangements for migrants, who are stranded due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown and want to go back to their native places. He had also tweeted about the issue and called for a national-level protest if trains are not arranged till April 18 to ferry migrants workers to their native places, he said. (inputs from agencies)