Even After Arrest of 10 Union Leaders, Samsung Workers Continue Protest; CITU Moves HC

Chennai: The agitating Samsung employees continued their strike on the 31st day on Wednesday although in a midnight crackdown, police arrested 10 CPI (M)-affiliated CITU union leaders. The makeshift pandal where the demonstrations were being held near the factory in Kancheepuram district was also dismantled by the administration, reported The Statesman.

The Statesman reported quoting union sources that ten office-bearers of the CITU-backed Samsung India Labour Welfare Union were forcibly arrested from their homes on Tuesday midnight. Further, the pandal erected for the protest demonstration was also dismantled by the cops without any notice resulting in tension in the area.

Meanwhile, the CITU has moved the Madras High Court with a Habeas Corpus petition against the arrest and police intimidation.