Japan has sought a clear Investigation probe, Â and Punishment for those involved in the Violence of Maruti Suzuki’s plant at Manesar Harayana.
“We strongly hope that the State of Haryana would administer, according to law, prompt and just punishment to the perpetrators and effectively enforce law and order so that such incidence would not be repeated in the future,” said a statement from the Japanese embassy.
Maruti is a subsidiary company of Japanese automaker Suzuki Corporation.
“We expect that the Manesar plant will resume its operations and normalcy will be recovered at the earliest,” it added.
One person was killed and over two dozen people were injured in a fire at the plant Wednesday as thousands of protesting workers locked its main gates trapping officials inside, authorities said.
The deceased Maruti official, Awanish Kumar, is a human resources professional with the designation of general manager. His charred body was found on Thursday and identified by his family. Scores of workers and managers were also injured in the violence.
Haryana government officials are believed to be seriously considering recommending a shutdown of the plant after Wednesday night’s violence, easily the country’s worst industrial relations-related incident since 2009 when the vice-president of auto parts maker Pricol was beaten to death by workers in the southern city of Coimbatore.
The company has accused the workers for sparking the fire.