Twenty-four-year-old Satvir’s journey from Delhi to his hometown in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh met a roadblock like most of India’s poor – he was stopped, beaten up and forced to stay in a shelter home, unlike other commuters crossing from Delhi to Noida.

Satvir was stopped at Delhi-Noida border on 18 May, when he tried to cross over with his wife and children. After being made to wait for hours, he was allowed to enter Noida with his family that evening but was asked to leave his Kulfi cart behind. When he requested Noida police to allow him to cross over with his cart, he was thrashed.
But that wasn’t all.

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