Thousands of migrant workers, mostly employed in coffee estates across Kodagu, were taken to three centres in the district on Thursday as police carried out an identity verification exercise.
MADIKERI: Thousands of migrant workers, mostly employed in coffee estates across Kodagu, were taken to three centres in the district on Thursday as police carried out an identity verification exercise. The centres in Madikeri, Virajpet and Kushalnagar towns were teeming with crowds as police conducted both offline and online identity verification.
Acting on the orders of Kodagu Superintendent of Police Dr Suman D Pannekar, the district police instructed coffee planters to bring the migrant workers with their documents to the jurisdictional police stations on Thursday morning. From there, the workers were taken to the processing centres. The verification process continued till evening.
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