Overview
- Worker unrest, which turned violent on Monday with vehicles torched and more than 100 factories vandalised, grew out of demands for pay closer to Haryana’s recent minimum‑wage hike.
- By Thursday, police reported 13 FIRs and 62 arrests and named Rupesh Roy, Aditya Anand and Manisha Chauhan as key accused, with Anand still at large.
- Police said two X accounts pushed false claims of protester deaths and later traced the activity to Pakistan through data showing VPN use, prompting cases under IT and public‑order laws.
- A Uttar Pradesh briefing said 45 of the first 66 people arrested were not factory workers, and probes now focus on organised networks, WhatsApp groups and links to the Mazdoor Bigul outfit.
- Industrial units have largely reopened after an interim wage raise to Rs 13,690 for unskilled, Rs 15,059 for semi‑skilled and Rs 16,868 for skilled workers, while Friday brought a small protest near Sector 8 and an opposition delegation moved to meet workers under tight police deployment.