Nirma labourers vandalise staff bus after train cancellation

Hundreds of labourers working at Nirma Limited's detergent plant in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district allegedly went on a ramp and vandalised a staff bus in early hours of Monday after a Shramik Special train to Uttar Pradesh from here was cancelled, police said.

incident took place at labourers' colony near Nirma plant in Kala Talav area after workers got angry thinking company was t letting m go to ir native place during lockdown, "which was t true", Superintendent of Police Jaipalsinh Rathore said.

"Some of labourers were supposed to catch a special train to Uttar Pradesh from Bhavnagar railway station on Monday morning. When y were being taken to station in a staff bus, company manment learnt train was cancelled due to some reason. Thus, bus took a u-turn mid-way and came back to labourers' colony," he said.

labourers thought company was t allowing m to go, official said.

"After returning, y went on a ramp and broke some window panes and windscreen of bus," he said.

Police lodged an FIR under charges of rioting and a process was underway to arrest 10 of labourers, he added.