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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Caste slur did not trigger violence at Maruti's Manesar plant: Probe-Dipak Kumar Dash

Caste slur did not trigger violence at Maruti's Manesar plant: Probe-Dipak Kumar Dash

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published Published on Jul 25, 2012   modified Modified on Jul 25, 2012

-The Times of India

Preliminary findings into the violence at the Maruti's Manesar plant has disproved the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union's allegations that the mob fury was triggered by "casteist comments" allegedly made by a supervisor against a dalit worker.

Investigators claimed that the supervisor, Sangram Singh, was also a dalit like his alleged victim, permanent worker Jiyalal, and therefore could not have made abusive comments against him.

MSWU had alleged the casteist remark made against Jiyalal was "pre-meditated by the management". Labour officers, who rushed to the spot soon after the dispute, have reported to Haryana government that Jiyalal had slapped Singh during tea time, around 9am. The matter was reported to the company's human resource (HR) department almost immediately.

"Tension flared up when the management refused to immediately reinstate Jiyalal, who had been suspended for slapping Sangram Singh. The management gave in to the workers' sustained pressure, but on the condition that the reinstatement would be done on Friday after he gave an undertaking to behave well. However, the workers insisted on immediate reinstatement," said a labour department official.

Though the Maruti management has been claiming that the attack was pre-planned and targeted towards senior employees, investigators are working on all possible angles. "Interrogation of the arrested persons could reveal the reasons behind the brutal attack. But we suspect that unresolved demands of the union that was submitted to the management on April 18 could have triggered the mob fury," said one of Haryana government sources.

Some of the demands that the union had put forth were higher wages, an increase in HR allowance and making all contract labourers at the plant permanent employees. "There had been several rounds of meeting — about 25 since last October. The union's suspicion of the management derailing the talks could have been one of the reasons behind the workers going amok," said one of the investigators.

Even MSWU had alleged that the management had done its "utmost to derail the process" since long and was trying to break the "back of the spirit of unity of the workers" and the "legitimacy of the union".

Senior district administration officials, who have been keeping an eye on the unfolding event and probe, said that one of the reasons of the mob setting the office on fire could be that they had realized that their acts of violence were captured in CCTV cameras. "There is an obvious suspicion that they wanted to destroy the evidence so that they would not be caught by police," said an official.

The Times of India, 25 July, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Caste-slur-did-not-trigger-violence-at-Marutis-Manesar-plant-Probe/articleshow/15129762.cms


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