The strike in the national capital took a violent turn when a group of protesters pelted stones at over a dozen factories and offices in Okhla Industrial Area in South Delhi. Six trouble-makers were detained, police said.
In Noida, around 200 workers pelted stones at a factory in Sector 5 breaking windows and damaged vehicles even as authorities imposed prohibitory order in the district of Uttar Pradesh.
Five persons have been arrested in today's incident, Senior Superintendent of Police Shalabh Mathur said.
Around 100 workers had also assembled in Sector 10 industrial area and started pelting stones but police reached the spot and prevented damage to factories, he said. “Barring these two minor incidents, no clash was reported from other places in the city,” the SSP said.
