Guilty in Maruti violence will be punished quickly: Har govt

Meanwhile, Maruti Suzuki said it has run out of stock of the two best selling models, Swift and DZire, which are produced at the Manesar plant where it has declared lockout following violence last week.

"It is our bounden duty to ensure that the guilty be given exemplary punishment with speed and trial commences so that punishment to perpetrators of the crime becomes an example for others not to indulge in such incidents," Haryana Industry Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala told PTI.

A senior Maruti official was killed and 100 others were injured in violence at the plant last week. The police have arrested over 100 workers following the incident. The state government and the company are separately investigating the incident.

Surjewala said the violence was not spontaneous, and it was a "designed" act to damage industrial peace in the state.

"Prima facie, it is a concerted effort to disturb industrial peace...It is not a spontaneous (incident) and it is also not a labour unrest issue," he said.

Condemning the recent incidents at the Manesar plant, AARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry President Vikramjit Sahney said violence at industrial units will dent India's image as a manufacturing base and a conducive investment destination.

"Acts of violence besides physically shedding blood sullies the image of India as a manufacturing base and as a conducive investment destination especially in view of the economic slow down," he said in a statement. (MORE)