IMPHAL, January 17: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System has said that two Tata Wingers were stopped while trying to sneak in non-locals without proper verification papers this morning.
According to a press statement of the committee, a team of the JCILPS student wing including leaders of MSF, on getting information that two vehicles were coming from Dimapur carrying non-locals, went till Saparmeina to check the vehicles.
It said the two vehicles however went pass the team ignoring calls to stop.
The vehicles were stopped at Kanglatombi and checked during which the two were found carrying 21 non-locals without any proper verification papers and who are not Inter State Migrant Labours registered with Labour department, it said.
The statement further said that the vehicles were later made to turn back with the non-locals.
In 2014, the committee had held a meeting with transporters, drivers and owners of vehicles plying along Imphal-Dimapur and Imphal-Guwahati routes and counter services and decided not to bring any non-local without proper verification until the ILPS or a similar legislation is passed, it said.
It also said that there are laws which bars entry of inter State migrant labours without the registration certificate of the Labour department.
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