On Tuesday, a journalist with ABP Majha, Rahul Kulkarni, was arrested for allegedly reporting that some trains had “restarted”, which purportedly prompted yesterday’s chaos at Bandra station, Mumbai, due to the sudden influx of migrant labourers who have been waiting to go home.

Kulkarni is based in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district and is now being produced before the court by the police.

Pranaya Ashok, the deputy commissioner of police, Mumbai, told Hindustan Times : “We have...registered a separate FIR against Rahul Kulkarni, a journalist from [a] Marathi news channel, for running news about a special train running for migrant workers. We are calling him for inquiry today.”