13 former Maruti workers awarded life imprisonment
13 former workers of Maruti Suzuki Limited were awarded life imprisonment by the Haryana court on Saturday in connection with 2012 Maruti factory violence in Manesar.
Gurugram,
March
18:
A
Haryana
court
on
Saturday
awarded
life
imprisonment
to
13
former
workers
of
Maruti
Suzuki
India
Limited
in
connection
with
the
2012
Maruti
factory
violence
and
rioting
case.
The
court
also
sentenced
four
other
accused
to
five-year
imprisonment
and
said
that
the
sentence
already
served
by
the
remaining
14
accused
was
sufficient.
On March 10, Additional District and Sessions Judge R P Goel held 31 former workers guilty of murder and attempt to murder, among other offences, at MSIL's Manesar plant on July 18, 2012 evening.
[Also read: 2012 Maruti factory violence case: 31 convicted, 117 acquitted]
Maruti Suzuki Human Resource Department general manager Ashwin Kumar Dev was burnt alive and over 50 persons were injured in the violence. Several policemen had also received injuries.
Earlier in the day, Section 144 was imposed banning the assembly of five or more persons in the suburb of the national capital before the court could award the punishment to the convicts in the case.
The decision to impose Section 144 of the Code for Criminal Procedure in Gurugram district with immediate effect and till May 14 also comes in the wake of plans of Jat protesters from Haryana to take their stir to Delhi on March 20. The district administration is prepared to meet all eventualities, an official said on Saturday.