Six more held for Manesar violence

They were nabbed from different locations in the state.

Sohan Lal was arrested on Saturday and produced before a magistrate,who sent him to judicial custody for 14 days. The other five arrested workers would be produced in court on Monday,they said. On Thursday,police have arrested 99 people. They are lodged in Bhondsi Jail after a court remanded them in judicial custody for 14 days.

In New Delhi,Maruti Suzuki said it would continue to dispatch cars from its stockyard at the plant to dealers across the country,though it has declared a lockout at the factory.

“The dispatch operations won’t be affected and will continue from Manesar,” Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) chief operating officer (Production) M M Singh said. The stockyard at the Manesar plant has an inventory of about 26,000 units at present,he said.

The company had resumed dispatching cars from the stockyard to various dealers across the country on Friday.

The Manesar stockyard is also used for delivering cars produced at the company’s Gurgaon plant.

On Saturday,the violence-hit company declared an indefinite lockout at its Manesar plant,the first such instance in its history,but firmly ruled out the possibility of shifting operations to Gujarat.

The company said it was completely overtaken by the “tsunami-like” violence that it had not anticipated and announced it would not employ casual labour from March next year in production-related operations.