Production in Nasa units suspended after clash: 25 hurt
Friday, 23 July 2010
FE Report
The production in three factories of Nasa group was suspended Thursday after a clash between workers and management staff at Nischintapur in Ashulia industrial belt. The violence left nearly 25 people injured.
The police said a fresh trouble erupted at Nasa Basic Limited, a subsidiary of one of the country's leading business conglomerates, at about 9:30am when hundreds of agitating workers tried to resist a group of their colleagues who wanted to begin manufacturing defying the calls for work abstention.
As the protestors chased them, a section of workers who wanted to continue work with the help of management officials hurled brickbats resulting a series of chase and counter chase that left around 25 people injured.
The agitating workers have been continuing work abstention since Wednesday at the apparel unit demanding suspension of seven officials, withdrawal of a case filed against some workers on charges of vandalising the factory last month.
The demonstrators said the factory officials suddenly attacked them when they were peacefully holding the protest programme against some of its officials who, they alleged, often resort to physical torture of their female colleagues. But the authorities rejected the allegation, they complained.
The authorities of four factories including Nasa Basic Limited along with its two other sister companies, closed operation for the day fearing further agitation.
On information, additional law enforcers rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
Officer-in-Charge of Ashulia police station, Sirajul Islam, said that the two rival groups of workers were engaged in clash over work abstention in the morning and added that some unruly workers smashed some windowpanes of the factories.
The production in three factories of Nasa group was suspended Thursday after a clash between workers and management staff at Nischintapur in Ashulia industrial belt. The violence left nearly 25 people injured.
The police said a fresh trouble erupted at Nasa Basic Limited, a subsidiary of one of the country's leading business conglomerates, at about 9:30am when hundreds of agitating workers tried to resist a group of their colleagues who wanted to begin manufacturing defying the calls for work abstention.
As the protestors chased them, a section of workers who wanted to continue work with the help of management officials hurled brickbats resulting a series of chase and counter chase that left around 25 people injured.
The agitating workers have been continuing work abstention since Wednesday at the apparel unit demanding suspension of seven officials, withdrawal of a case filed against some workers on charges of vandalising the factory last month.
The demonstrators said the factory officials suddenly attacked them when they were peacefully holding the protest programme against some of its officials who, they alleged, often resort to physical torture of their female colleagues. But the authorities rejected the allegation, they complained.
The authorities of four factories including Nasa Basic Limited along with its two other sister companies, closed operation for the day fearing further agitation.
On information, additional law enforcers rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
Officer-in-Charge of Ashulia police station, Sirajul Islam, said that the two rival groups of workers were engaged in clash over work abstention in the morning and added that some unruly workers smashed some windowpanes of the factories.