Maharashtra Transport Commissioner Shekhar Channe on Thursday evening conducted a surprise visit to the RTO Thane border check-post and stopped vehicles ferrying migrants in trucks and arranged MSRTC buses for them. Thane RTO has been seeing the highest action against such illegal transport of migrants with them issuing memos to 250 vehicles in the past three days. So far 18,029 cases of migrants willing to travel have been transported in 805 MSRTC buses.

Channe, on a visit to the city border during a routine inspection, found a national permit lorry with high side walls and stopped to shockingly find a small vent in it and people stashed inside.