Labourers pelt stone after worker injured in factory in Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur: A handful of contract labourers today indulged in stone pelting after one of their colleagues sustained injury inside Tata Steel works here.

According to a press release issued by the company, labourer Banke Bihari Mahto sustained an injury at Jamshedpur Continuous Annealing & Processing Co Pvt Ltd project site inside the Tata Steel works in the morning. Though the injured was immediately admitted to Tata main hospital, a few contract labourers got angry over the issue and started stone pelting and creating disturbances, the release said. The situation was soon brought under control after the police was informed of the incident. Operations in the company returned to normalcy, it said, adding that no fracture has been detected in the preliminary test conducted on Mahto. PTI