Ten Maruti Suzuki union leaders
were arrested Wednesday for their alleged role in the July 18 violence
at the company's Manesar plant that led to the death of a senior
executive, police said.
"The accused will be produced in a court Thursday," Haryana Director General of Police Ranjeev Singh Dalal told reporters here.
With
this, all the 12 members of the car company's labour union, accused of
instigating other workers to indulge in violence, have been arrested.
The other two office-bearers of the union were arrested earlier.
The total number of people held in the case now stands at 114.
Those
arrested Wednesday include Sandeep Dhillon (union's patron), Rammehar
Singh (president), Sohan Singh (vice president), Sarvjeet Singh (general
secretary), Suresh Kumar, Ajmer Singh, Pawan Kumar, Ram Bilas, Amarjeet
and Pradeep Kumar.
The two others leaders held earlier are Yogesh Yadav and Dhanraj Bhambi.
Three other accused, Manoj, Narender and Narender, were held Tuesday.
Dalal
said special police teams were constituted to arrest the accused. They
conducted raids in Haridwar (Uttarakhand), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Rajasthan
and Haryana.
Maruti's senior executive Awanish Kumar Dev was
killed and nearly 100 people were injured after the workers went on a
rampage. The plant has shut down operations after the incident.
Dalal
said the Haryana government had decided to deploy a dedicated battalion
in Manesar headed by IPS officer Yogender Nehra as the commandant.
He
said the Haryana Police battalion which passed out July 21 would be
deployed in Manesar to maintain law and order in the town.
He
also said that talks were going on between the police and Haryana State
Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation for providing 10
acres of land to house the new battalion.
