The Tata Tea/ULFA Story
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Case Details:
Case Code : BECG008
Case Length : 09 Pages
Period : 1997-2001
Pub. Date : 2002
Teaching Note : Available
Organization : Tata Tea, ULFA
Industry : Food and Beverage
Countries : India
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A Scandal Unravels Contd...
In September 1997, the manager of Tata Tea's North India
Plantation Division in Assam, S S Dogra (Dogra), was arrested on charges of
'aiding and abetting terrorism and assisting persons involved in waging war
against the state.'
Charges were issued against the company's welfare officer Brojen Gogoi (Gogoi)
also, who had accompanied Pranati to Bombay.
Dogra's arrest led to a controversy that soon engulfed many top names from
India's corporate and political circles.
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Ratan Tata, the CEO of Tata Tea's holding company, Tata Sons,
rushed to Delhi to meet the then Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (Mahanta),
Assam Chief Secretary V S Jafa (Jafa), the Union Home Secretary K Padmanabhaiah,
the Home Minister Indrajit Gupta (Gupta) and the Prime Minister Inder Kumar
Gujaral (Gujaral).
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Later, the issue was discussed at a meeting between
Gujral, Mahanta and Gupta, as well as at a meeting of the United Front
coalition's core group of leaders.
The Tata Tea-ULFA controversy brought to the attention of the rest of
the country, what the Assam tea industry had had to live with over the
last two decades - kidnappings, murders and extortion - both by the ULFA
and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants.
Background Note
Tata Tea is the second largest tea company in India, after Hindustan
Lever Ltd. (HLL). |
A part of the Tata group of companies1, Tata Tea was
incorporated in 1962 as Tata Finlay Ltd. with a technical and financial
collaboration with James Finlay & Co Glasgow, UK...
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