Gurgaon, October 18: A worker was critically injured and a vehicle was torched when two sections of the employees of Rico auto clashed with each other outside the premises of the auto component making company here this evening.
The clash erupted at around 7 pm when a group of company workers, who have been on strike for about a month demanding higher pay among other things, allegedly picked up a scuffle with another group of workers who have stayed away from the agitation, Gurgaon police Commissioner Surjit Singh Deswal said.
“They had a heated argument followed by a clash in which a worker was critically injured and a motorcycle burnt”, he said.
It is still not clear if the injured worker belonged to the group of striking workers or those who have not joined the strike, he said.
–IANS