Goa Which Drove Kannadigas to K’taka on Friday, Takes Back After Central Govt Order on Saturday 

After lockdown declared Goa had forcibly drove away 20 Kannadiga labourers from Goa Shipyard on Tuesdays. The labourers, according to the victims,  were not given neither food, breakfast nor even water by the Shipyard and reached Kanakumbi checkpoint at the Goa-Karnataka border where they just ate dry snacks as all shops were closed due to lockout.

They reached Belagavi in one of the track returning to Belagavi after supplying vegetable at Goa and got down near Court and been to nearby DC office on Friday evening. The police on duty informed their higher ups and later took them all near City Corporation Sports Complex at Ashok nagar where Belagavi DC SB Bommanhalli and Police Commissioner Lokeshkumar rushed and arranged food for them. All those arrived were from Humnabad and Bidar district.

As Goa was kept on driving out all the Kannada labourers, the Karnataka brought this to the notice of Central government itself in the night which immediately instructed Goa to stop putting out the out staters and to get back all who were sent out.

Goa had put about 500 Kannada labourers including women and children who were waiting at the Kanabumbi checkpoint for vehicles toward Karnataka. Checkpoint employees said that Kannadigas were arriving in groups throughout the night.

After the instruction, Goa pressed its officials to get back the people, who in the vehicles in which they had come took back and dropped at their residents in different parts of Goa.