Maruti Incident will not Hamper Investments: Hooda; Management Holds Candlelight March

Kolkata: The violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant, which left one senior executive dead, will not impact on investments in Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said. "One untoward incident cannot have so many implications. The incident won't have any impact on the investment friendly atmosphere and future of industries in the state. I can assure that," said Hooda on the sidelines of a programme. Meanwhile on August 5, 2012, the Maruti Suzuki management organised a candlelight march to pay tribute to its Senior Maruti Executive Awanish Kumar Dev who was killed in the July 18 violence at the company's plant in Manesar. Nearly 300 company officials including senior executives S.Y. Siddqi, Ratan Aggarwal, Capt. Deepak Anand, Capt. Naresh, Sanjay Narang, K.K. Sharma, C.S. Raju, Prasad Verma and Ashok Kumar along with others assembled in the Leisure Valley Park at 7 p.m. and offered prayers and held a candle-light march. They also prayed for justice for all the victims. 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 July 18. Ten Maruti Suzuki union leaders were sent to police custody on August 2 for seven days by a court for their alleged role in the July 18 violence at the Manesar plant that left an executive dead. The accused were arrested on August 1, taking the number of people held in the case to 114.