CII members meet industries minister to discuss security plan

  • | Monday | 13th August, 2018

SLUG: MIDC violenceAurangabad: Five days after rioters targeted Waluj industrial area, commissioner of police Chiranjeev Prasad on Monday along with the officer-bearers of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) reached out to industries minister Subhash Desai and discussed security loopholes that came to fore.During the marathon meeting, CII members also demanded exemplary action apart from finding out the mastermind and intention behind the overall violence where only selected companies were targeted.“The meeting with the minister was very fruitful, where the minister has assured that the government is fully committed to provide all necessary support for bringing back the situation to normalcy and no such unruly incident will occur in future,” CII state president Rishi Bagla said.Meanwhile, Prasad briefed about the plans of carrying out a detailed security audit of the industrial area followed by introducing a sector-wise as well as unit-wise fool-proof security mechanism.“We are working on a fool-proof plan for the industrial area as well as industrial houses so that in future no industrial house ends up getting targeted by the mob or rioters,” Prasad said.The officer informed that apart from police, private security deployed at the industrial houses would also be roped in and trained so that overall effectiveness of the security arrangement delivers desired results in the long-run.The unprecedented riots in Waluj MIDC have caused serious uproar from the industrial fraternity with some of them even threatening to shift their units from the city.Several vehicles parked in the industries were also damaged and torched by the rioters who did not even refrain from attacking the convoy of the city police chief that reached there to take charge of the situation.So far, the MIDC Waluj police have registered seven offences in which complaints of several companies have been clubbed taking the total number of suspects in these seven cases to 2,500.“As many as 41 people have been arrested after duly verifying their specific role in the violence, while half-a-dozen minors caught on the wrong side of the law have been detained and sent to remand homes,” a police officer said.

SLUG: MIDC violenceAurangabad: Five days after rioters targeted Waluj industrial area, commissioner of police Chiranjeev Prasad on Monday along with the officer-bearers of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) reached out to industries minister Subhash Desai and discussed security loopholes that came to fore.During the marathon meeting, CII members also demanded exemplary action apart from finding out the mastermind and intention behind the overall violence where only selected companies were targeted.“The meeting with the minister was very fruitful, where the minister has assured that the government is fully committed to provide all necessary support for bringing back the situation to normalcy and no such unruly incident will occur in future,” CII state president Rishi Bagla said.Meanwhile, Prasad briefed about the plans of carrying out a detailed security audit of the industrial area followed by introducing a sector-wise as well as unit-wise fool-proof security mechanism.“We are working on a fool-proof plan for the industrial area as well as industrial houses so that in future no industrial house ends up getting targeted by the mob or rioters,” Prasad said.The officer informed that apart from police, private security deployed at the industrial houses would also be roped in and trained so that overall effectiveness of the security arrangement delivers desired results in the long-run.The unprecedented riots in Waluj MIDC have caused serious uproar from the industrial fraternity with some of them even threatening to shift their units from the city.Several vehicles parked in the industries were also damaged and torched by the rioters who did not even refrain from attacking the convoy of the city police chief that reached there to take charge of the situation.So far, the MIDC Waluj police have registered seven offences in which complaints of several companies have been clubbed taking the total number of suspects in these seven cases to 2,500.“As many as 41 people have been arrested after duly verifying their specific role in the violence, while half-a-dozen minors caught on the wrong side of the law have been detained and sent to remand homes,” a police officer said.

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