"The contractual employees of the power department were staging a sit-in dharna to demand regularisation of their employment. When the police tried to remove them, the employees indulged into brick batting," Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar said.
"The protesting group went on a rampage and torched two vehicles, including a police jeep and a motorcycle," he said.
"Police then resorted to a baton-charge to disperse the agitating employees," Kumar said adding that, "more than 100 people have been detained in this regard."
"The committee has appealed all the power employees for a 48 hours work boycott from February 24," the committee spokesman, Girish Pandey, said today.
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