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India’s top carmaker Maruti Suzuki said today that more than 500 workers had been sacked after staff rioted at a plant near New Delhi last month in violence that left one manager dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Of the 1,500-odd regular workers, we have issued notices dispensing with their services to 500-odd so far,” company chairman R.C. Bhargava told reporters.<\/p>\n

During the riot on July 18, workers chased managers with iron rods and car parts, attacking them and torching equipment in unrest triggered by a row between an employee and a supervisor, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

A personnel manager, whose legs were broken, was unable to flee and burned to death in an office area. Nearly 100 other supervisors were injured.<\/p>\n

Bhargava said that production, which was halted at the Manesar plant after the riot, would be partially re-started on August 21 with 200 anti-riot police <\/strong>on duty inside the factory.<\/p>\n

Maruti is majority-owned by Japan’s Suzuki Motor<\/strong> which receives more than a quarter of its revenues from India.<\/p>\n

The Indian unit, the country’s largest carmaker by sales, has lost some $9 million a day from the plant shutdown<\/strong>, analysts calculate.<\/p>\n

The plant has a history of industrial disputes but none as violent as the July riot which shocked corporate India.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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