Women vigilantes torched one truck which was bringing migrant workers without documents including identity cards on Tuesday morning.
Some personnel of Village Defence Force intercepted one truck coming from Assam at Heingang along highway 2 about 15 km away from Imphal.
There were 34 migrant workers inside the truck.
While the VDF personnel were making inquiries women vigilantes materialised there. They surrounded the truck AS/14-A 9132 driven by a Nepali, Ajit Limbu. It transpired that these migrant workers were being taken towards Bishnupur district. There had been appeals to the drivers not to bring migrant workers without documents since many of them were found to be foreigners. Besides, Manipur has been experiencing agitations demanding the reintroduction of the Inner Liner Permit system to check entry of outsiders.
The women vigilantes found that just nine of the migrant workers had their identity cards. The driver and a person, Hemanta who were bringing them to Manipur could not give coherent replies. Later the truck was torched and the migrant workers were handed over to police.
