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Company official killed by sacked labourers in Coimbatore | A group of agitating workers of an auto
parts manufacturing company in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday lynched the Vice President (Human Resource) of the company to death. Six workers barged into Pricol
Limited and attacked employees of company's human resource department including
Vice-President Roy J George got badly hurt. George, 47, succumbed to serious head
injures in hospital. According to the police the assault was a reaction to their
dismissal from service. The company had dismissed around 42 workers on Saturday
on account of indiscipline. In a statement, the company stated that its utilisation
capacity was slipped to ten percent and some workers were not letting the others
work. George was trying to initiate a dialogue with the agitating workers to bring
the operations back on track. Police arrested 12 workers of the company belonging
to All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) on charges of murder. A
case has been registered against them under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code
(IPC). Earlier, the AICCTU had made various demands before the management. Company
sources said trouble between the workers and the management had been on for the
last two years. Security has been beefed up as a precautionary measure in the
company premises. |
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