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10 union leaders of Maruti Manesar plant arrested: Police

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Press Trust of India Gurgaon

"These ten office bearers were arrested from Hansi in Hissar district this morning. They were planning to escape to to Rajasthan from where they planned to go to Gujarat," Haryana Director General of Police Ranjeev Singh Dalal told reporters here.

These ten workers would be produced at court tomorrow and the police would seek ten days remand, he added.

The other arrested union leaders are Chief Patron Sandeep Dhillon, Vice-President Sohan Kumar, Cashier Suresh Kumar, Legal Advisor Ajmer Singh and Joint Secretary Pawan Kumar along with three Executive Members, Ram Vilas, Amarjeet and Pradeep Kumar.

The police had already arrested two union leaders -- Organising Secretary Yogesh Yadav and Executive Member Dhanraj Bhami.

 

"With today's arrests, all the union leaders have been nabbed," he said, adding in all 114 workers have been arrested so far in relation to the incident.

Six different teams of Haryana police had raided different places in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana to trace the absconding union leaders, he added.

The Haryana government had set up a special investigation team, headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Ravinder Tomar, to probe the incident in which one senior official of the company was killed and 100 others were injured. MORE

  

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First Published: Aug 01 2012 | 7:06 PM IST

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