Just over a month since thousands of migrant workers gathered at Bandra station seeking arrangements to ferry them home, the Bandra Terminus saw huge crowds again, seeking to board a train. Yet again on Tuesday morning, after migrant labourers learnt about a train set to leave for Bihar, thousands of them gathered to get onto it. Sources said that the workers started arriving at around 9 am and in just few hours there were around 5,000 people.

They said they had got an update that a train was leaving for Bihar. On May 19, a Shramik special train was scheduled for Purnia district from Bandra Terminus, in which only passengers registered with state authorities were to travel. But many people who were not registered and not called by the state authorities gathered on the bridge and road near the station. Bonafide, registered passengers were checked and allowed to enter the station and the train left Bandra Terminus at about 12 noon with 1,700 labourers and their families. Later, the crowd was cleared from the area by city police," Ravinder Bhakar, Western Railway-s chief public relations officer said. The city police then barricaded Bandra Terminus.