JCT workers stage protest over dues

Hundreds of irate workers of JCT Mill, Phagwara, led by the Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh president Ajay Kumar Yadav and Shiv Sena leader Kamal Saroj today again assembled at the gate of JCT Mill and staged a protest against mill directors Sameer Thapar and Mukulika Sinha for non-payment of dues and allowances of the workers for the last one year. The protesters were raising slogans against the mill management.

Phagwara DSP Bharat Bhushan along with local SHO Amandeep Nahar rushed the spot to pacify the protesters.

The DSP gave them assurance that they were taking legal action against Thapar. The DSP further stated that the workers would get their salaries and pending payments as soon as possible as an FIR had been registered against Thapar and Sinha. The dharna was lifted only after the assurance by the cops.

Phagwara SP Gurpreet Singh told this correspondent that the police had already registered a case against the mill management for the wrong deals.