Rioting Maruti Workers Face Murder Charges After Manager Death

Karthikeyan Sundaram and Siddharth Philip,

http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Rioting-Maruti-Workers-Face-Murder-Charges-After-3720270.php


July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Indian authorities
threatened to charge all 3,000 Maruti Suzuki India
Ltd. union workers at a plant after a riot that the
labor union says began when a supervisor insulted
an employee because of his caste.

Authorities will press charges of murder and
attempted murder against all rioting workers at
Maruti's Manesar plant because they engaged in a
mob attack that led to a person's death, Maheswar
Dayal, deputy commissioner of police, said in an
interview yesterday. The police have arrested 99
workers and deployed 1,200 officers to secure the
area, Director General of Police Ranjiv Singh Dalal
said.

Indian police occupied the suspended factory, which
accounts for about 40 percent of Maruti's total
capacity, as they begin investigating the company's
most violent labor clash. Maruti and Suzuki Motor
Corp. shares tumbled as the violence revived
concerns about recurring labor disputes at the
Indian carmaker, which suffered through a 33-day
labor strike last year that drove down profit.

"I think it may take 8-to-10 days to resume
operations at Manesar," said Umesh Karne, an
analyst with BRICS Securities Ltd. in Mumbai. "The
concern is that with this shutdown, the majority of
Maruti's diesel car production may be hit as the
Swift and DZire's diesel models are made at
Manesar."

A person was burnt to death and at least 70
managers at the factory were injured, K.K. Sindhu,
police commissioner for the Gurgaon district, said
in a phone interview. Maruti identified the
deceased as Awanish Kumar Dev, a human resources
general manager.

Suzuki, which owns a majority stake in the Indian
carmaker, said production facilities weren't
damaged by this week's riot.

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