As daylight broke on Thursday, October 10, the number of policemen near Echoor in Sriperumbudur kept increasing. This is the place where Samsung's workers have been protesting for over a month now – a protest that the Madras High Court on Wednesday said should be allowed to continue. But as a group of around 20 Samsung employees gathered outside a tea shop near the protest site around 9 am, they were quickly whisked away by the police to a marriage hall – which is where the police have been retaining protesters for the past few days.
