The Ernakulam Rural police in Kerala are staring at the humongous, if not impossible, task of obtaining police clearance certificates of migrant workers within their limits from the police authorities of the respective districts in other States where the workers hail from.
The police had kickstarted the registration of migrant workers shortly after the gruesome murder of a five-year-old migrant girl allegedly by a migrant worker at Aluva in July, 2023. The trial in the case is under way.
So far, the police claim to have registered around 1.2 lakh migrant workers. Migrant workers from Assam topped the list followed by West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu.
