Coinciding with the fourth anniversary of violence at Maruti’s Manesar plant in July 2012, a large number of workers from various factories along the Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal automobile belt took out a protest march demanding immediate release of the Maruti workers.
A senior Maruti Suzuki executive was killed and several others were injured following violence in the company’s Manesar plant on July 18, 2012.
The police had arrested 148 workers following the incident and two more were arrested later. Of these, 115 have been granted bail, but 35 are still in jail.
The company had also sacked 546 regular and 2,000 contract workers in the wake of the incident.
Holding placards, the workers took out a protest march from Rajiv Chowk to Mini-Secretariat here on Monday evening and demanded that the ‘false’ cases against the workers be withdrawn and those in jail be released.
Maruti Suzuki Kamgar Union general-secretary Kuldeep Jhangu said the workers had been seeking justice from the administration for the past four years, but nothing had happened so far.
‘Workers framed’
Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union president Ajmer Singh said that the hundreds of workers were framed by the management without any evidence against them.
Besides 150 workers’ unions, the leaders of prominent trade unions such as Centre of Indian Trade Unions, All-India Trade Union Congress and Hind Mazdor Sabha also took part in the protest.
The workers also submitted a memorandum of their demands to the Deputy Commissioner.
