The former employees organised repeated protests over the years demanding to be reinstated. However, over the past two days, a bunch of people gathered along with their families and continued to protest in front of the factory.

“All of a sudden some protesters attempted to lay siege to the factory and when some factory workers resisted they assaulted two of them,” police said.

Based on a complaint from the car unit, police arrested Kannan, a former MLA along with 20 other people. Investigations are on.

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