More than four years after Maruti’s HR manager Awanish Kumar Dev was killed and several executives were injured in a large-scale violence at the company’s plant in Manesar, the final arguments in the case concluded at a court here on Saturday. Additional District and Sessions Judge R.P. Goyal fixed March 10 for pronouncing the judgment in the case.
‘Assault by workers’
Responding to the defence counsels’ contention that murder charge was not made out against the accused workers, the prosecution said Dev had died after being assaulted by them. In a rebuttal to the defence counsels’ contention that the prosecution had failed to prove as to who had lit the fire, the prosecution maintained that witnesses had given a consistent account in their evidence with regards to the mode and manner in which the fire was lit.
Source of fire
“They have deposed that the fire was lit outside M1 Room and it spread through the ceiling,” said special public prosecutor Anurag Hooda.
On the charges of the defence that the Test Identification Parade (TIP) was not done, the prosecution said it was not required as the accused were known to the witnesses. Responding to arguments that the FIR was not reliable, the prosecution contended that complainant Deepak Anand was observing the incident from the CCTV cameras in the security room.
