Dharmendra Kumar, Vice President of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union, was one of the detained when police in the industrial town of Manesar in Gurgaon district detained three union body members of the Maruti’s Manesar plant, one former Maruti worker, and nine other current Maruti workers in the early hours of September 2. The workers were distributing pamphlets for the planned nation-wide strike on September 2. Manesar plant remained unavailable for comment. Commissioner Gurgaon on being asked the police’s plans for the strike said, “We have deployed personnel. We have adequate deployment in the streets, we have police officers patrolling the districts.” He declined to comment further. “We did not even have flags. We were just going around to see what is happening at different factories when we were detained by the police. The Vigilance officers of Maruti themselves directed the police to pick us up,” Khushi Ram, General Secretary of a provisional working committee of terminated Maruti workers, said. He said that the unions had put up notices 14 days before the strike as mandated by the Industrial Disputes Act. He further added that the police, along with contractors and landlords, have been going around nearby villages to force villagers to go to work.