India: Boss beaten to death after sackings

More than 60 former employees of an Italian manufacturing company in India have been arrested for allegedly beating to death the company’s local chief executive, police said today.

Lalit Kishore Choudhary, the 47-year-old head of Graziano Transmissioni India, was set upon by workers angry at a series of sackings, said Babu Ram, the local superintendent of police.