Tension prevailed in the India Rare Earths limited (IREl) premises near here for 12 hours till late Wednesday evening as around 2,000 men and women of Sana Arjipalli village went berserk and did not allow employees to enter the firm over suspicious death of co-villager and contractual worker P Ramesh.
They forcibly entered the plant premises, beat up security officers and damaged furniture and windows of the company’s administrative in protest. Notably, P Ramesh, who was working as a contractual worker at the IRE, was found hanging inside the plant premises on Wednesday morning.
Alleging that P Ramesh was killed coming in contact with poisonous gas, the villagers demanded that the company gives ` 50 lakh compensation and a job to a member of the deceased’s family.
In the evening, a tripartite meeting among villagers, company officers and the Sub-Collector was held. While the company agreed to provide Rs 20,000 and a permanent job to the deceased’s family, the
district administration provided Rs 10,000 from the Red Cross Fund and assured that a recommendation would be sent to the Cm’s office for assistance.
The villagers withdrew agitation at around 8 pm.