Maruti fires 500 workers over riot in India
India's top carmaker Maruti Suzuki yesterday said that more than 500 workers had been sacked after staff rioted at a plant near New Delhi last month in violence that left one manager dead.
"Of the 1,500-odd regular workers, we have issued notices dispensing with their services to 500-odd so far," company chairman R.C. Bhargava told reporters.
During the riot on July 18, workers chased managers with iron rods and car parts, attacking them and torching equipment in unrest triggered by a row between an employee and a supervisor, according to witnesses.
A personnel manager, whose legs were broken, was unable to flee and burned to death in an office area. Nearly 100 other supervisors were injured in unrest that shocked India's corporate sector.
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