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Police on Thursday took in custody around 100 people who entered the city while travelling from Mumbai on way to their native places, including in North India, during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, said officials. These people, numbering around 100 and including women and children, were coming from Mumbai, around 200km from here, on foot during the lockdown and entered Nashik city in the evening, they said. Police swung into action when they were spotted on a flyover on the Mumbai-Agra Highway, which passes through the city, the officials said. They were travelling in violation of government orders related to implementation of the coronavirus-enforced lockdown and hence were taken into custody, they said. The police later sent them to a Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC)-run shelter home in Anandvalli..