Shillong, Oct 26: Khasi Students Union of Mawlai circle detained and later pushed backed “illegal migrants’ who were on their way to Borsora to work there in the coal mines. The eleven labourers came in a Mahindra jeep and were stopped at Mawlai.
The labourers who claimed to be of Nepali origin came to Meghalaya to work for a coal mine owner in Borsora in West Khasi district. The coal baron had asked the Mahindra jeep to pick up these labourers from the Assam Meghalaya border.
KSU Mawlai circle assistant general secretary Johny Khongsit told reporters Friday, “We have apprehended the labourers after local residents of Mawlai informed the union about a pick up truck carrying them.”
Khongsit said, “When we checked, all of them were found to have entered the state illegally without valid documents.” He informed these labourers came to the state at the behest of one coal businessman who had coal mines in West Khasi hills.
The labourers which include a minor and a woman were pushed back by the KSU as it claimed that they had failed to produce valid documents. Khongsit said the KSU will continue to conduct such checking to ensure that no outsider gets to enter the state illegally.-By Our Reporter
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