The violence at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar facility will be treated under “criminal proceedings” and not as a case of “industrial unrest”, the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,has said.

Assuring top company officials on Monday, Mr Hooda said that Mr K.T.S. Tulsi has been appointed as public prosecutor to “fast track” the investigation into last Wednesday’s incident that left a Maruti General Manager dead and 96 company officials seriously injured.

“The CM wants the right people to be identified and charge-sheeted, and not the innocent. What happened is criminal, the problem has to be identified and normalcy restored,” the Maruti Chairman, Mr R. C. Bhargava, said.

He added that the rumours of Maruti planning to relocate to Gujarat are “100 per cent fictional”.

Following this, Maruti’s internal investigation into the violence will supplement the Government’s Special Investigation Team formed last Thursday headed by ACP, Mr Ravindra Tomar. Mr Hooda had met the top four Maruti officials — Mr Bhargava, Mr Shinzo Nakanishi (MD), Mr S. Y. Siddiqui (COO, Administration – HR, IT), and Mr M. M. Singh (COO, Production).

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