The suburban railway's porous borders got exposed on Monday as Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) members led by Sandeep Deshpande flouted regulations and travelled on a local train on Monday afternoon. A number of MNS members from Thane and Dombivli were detained by police.

"We had warned the government that we will protest. We are travelling in train as promised," said Deshpande in a number of videos on social media. Sources said that MNS' railway union helped Deshpande achieve this. While Thane MNS leader Avinash Jadhav was detained by the Government Railway Police (GRP), a few MNS members who took a Thane-bound local at Vashi were detained at Rabale. There were protests outside Dombivli station too. Railway authorities and police registered cases against the activists for the violations.