CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers

(AFP PHOTO/Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY)

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Corporate India is in shock after a mob of workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who sacked them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.

Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni, a manufacturer of car parts that has its headquarters in Italy, died of severe head wounds on Monday after being attacked by scores of laid-off employees, police said. The incident, in Greater Noida, followed a long-running dispute between the factory’s management and workers demanding better pay and permanent contracts.

It is understood that Mr Choudhary, who was married with one son, had called a meeting with more than a hundred former employees who had been dismissed after an earlier outbreak of violence at the plant. He wanted to discuss a possible reinstatement deal.

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A police spokesman said: “Only a few people were called inside. About 150 people were waiting outside when they heard someone from inside shout for help. They rushed in and the two sides clashed. The company staff were heavily outnumbered.”

Other executives said that they were lucky to escape with their lives. “I locked my door from inside and prayed they would not break in. See, my hands are trembling even three hours later,” one Italian consultant told reporters.

More than 60 people were arrested and more than 20 were in hospital yesterday.

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1. almost a 100% correlation between intensive teevee ad campaigns for various financial institutions, and then the subsequent 'failure'...

2. kitt, you really are a jerk, AND contribute next to nothing in either considered opinions nor factoids... the comment by the one poster was spot on: developers/real estate droids, etc DID (and do) 'target' lower income/minority people they -metaphysically- KNEW would not be able to afford a balloon loan, because they knew the rails were greased all along the process...

EVERYONE up and down the chain just closed their eyes, shutup, and took their cut...

3. anyone have a definition of Free Speech or CENSORSHIP they'd care to share ? ? ? i'm confused and delusional...

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1. that would be two R's in guerrilla, errandboy... mayhaps know-it-alls who throw rocks at others for knowing less should make sure their glass houses are tempered...

2. my use of 'metaphysical' was mere hy-, hy-, hy-, um, well, it's like a parabola, only it starts with an H... i was making a point, not *really* saying the loan officers had some plane of existence above, which allowed them to literally know their loanees were not able to repay the loans... just that they Fucking Knew...

but it was much more fun for you to just kick an untouchable, NOT for the points being made (as slight as they were), but -really- 'cause you don't like me; not that you correct everyone so in error...

3. kitt, shut the fuck up; your 10 millionth USELESS posting of MERE AND ONLY insults to other posters for insulting other posters is pointless AND insulting...

insults with points, fine...

insults with no points, useless...

unlike MOST chickenshit saloonies, i frequently post my email eddress... artguerrilla@alltel.net

4. anyone know anything about this concept i once heard about called 'Free Speech', or sumpin'... i was wondering if it was kind of important, or if saloonists have no principles left at all...

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perhaps justifiably so...

1. as another poster pointed out, he was a 'bad boy'/asshole at the academy, and -apparently- none too bright, only scraping by as a legacy sop...

2. again, ONLY as a result of his father's influence/etc, was he able to get into being a pilot...

3. he crashed how many planes doing stupid shit ?

4. he KILLED how many OF HIS OWN (40-50, plus another 100+ wounded)on the forrestal when he -apparently- did a stupid, macho, stunt of 'wet lighting' his jet in front of another jet (figuratively lighting a fart on his 'buddy'), setting off his buddies missle, which then set off mccain's overweight bombs... ain't it cool ?

5. not to mention the extremely murky circumstances the vietcong had with him, the various propaganda shit he produced while captured, etc...

(PLUS the 'get out of jail' free card he got for virtually anything, by dint of his stint as a pow...)

are you going to tell me if a dem'rat (or even a real human bean) had done the same, that fox and fiends (and the rest of the mainstream pack journos) wouldn't broadcast the inconvenient factoids and 'speculations' 24/7/365 ? ? ?

'cause, you know that liberal media...

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art guerrilla

aka ann archy

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