Tea planter murder triggers exodus.(WorldNews)(Brief Article)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, April, 2005

INDIA -- Assam's loss-making tea estates today witnessed an exodus of executives apprehensive of attacks by workers angry over unpaid wages, reports the Telegraph.

Sources said as many 24 executives--all managers and assistant managers--fled their estates in the three Upper Assam districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar despite additional security personnel being deployed in the tea-producing belts of both the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys.

The trigger for the exodus was the death of garden owner Rupak Gogoi, the son of former Congress minister Jibakanta Gogoi, at Govindapur tea estate of Golaghat district.

Sources said as many as 11 gardens in Dibrugarh district, 5 in Tinsukia and 12 in Sivasagar had defaulted on payment of wages,...

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