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63 laid off workers kill CEO in India

by Tina Kells | September 23, 2008 at 08:34 am

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The Confederation of Indian Industry has condemned a fatal attack on the CEO of Graziano Transmissioni India, Monday, by disgruntled employees who had been laid off in recent months.

The CEO, Lait Kishore Choudhary, was beaten to death with sticks and stones outside of a meeting with the recently laid off employees. 63 people have been charged with murder.

Lait Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of Graziano Transmissioni India, bled to death on Monday after allegedly being attacked with rods and wooden sticks at a factory located on the outskirts of New Delhi, said Babu Ram, superintendent of police.

Several former employees went to a scheduled meeting at the factory in Greater Noida in an attempt to resolve an industrial dispute in which more than 100 employees were dismissed over recent months, Ram said.

Choudhary was allegedly attacked after he tried to reason with workers who had begun destroying factory property, Ram said.

Sixty-three of the former factory employees were charged with murder and 73 others were charged with disturbing the peace, Ram said.