MP: Century Mill workers condemn police brutality on VRS protesters
https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/mp-century-mill-workers-condemn-police-brutality-vrs-protesters Mill workers in Madhya Pradesh’s Magarkhedi, Khargone district have witnessed undue violence in the last two days since August 3, 2021. Protesters have reported manhandling, forced eviction and destruction of tents at protest sites... steps allegedly taken to break the workers’ morale.
On Tuesday alone, more than 400 mill workers, including activist Medha Patkar, were arrested for resisting the take-over of the Centuries Mill owned by the Aditya Birla group. The activist informed SabrangIndia that one woman reportedly ended up in the ICU, allegedly due to violent intervention by the police.
The Tuesday protest was the culmination of a four-year long struggle of over 1,000 workers fighting the forced VRS policy imposition. The human chain on Wednesday protested the administrative oppression.