Calcutta, Jan. 14 :    Calcutta, Jan. 14:  Hundreds of people began to gather from the morning around the family of the worker shot dead in a jute mill yesterday to receive his body as investigators claimed that the violence was organised. Bhola Das died when Baranagar Jute Mills' general manager J.P. Tiwari fired on him after being attacked by a group of workers. In the volcanic aftermath of the shooting, Tiwari and Gautam Ghosh, personnel manager, were beaten up and set afire. Police today handed over Bhola's body to his family in tension-filled Chinipatti in the factory neighbourhood, about 15 km from the city centre. 'How dare he (Tiwari) kill my son? They have done what they ought to have done,' his bitter mother, Gita said, alluding to the gory retaliation. The district intelligence branch probing the incident is blaming Bhola. 'If we look at the blow-by-blow account, it becomes fairly clear that it is a case of organised violence. Bhola took a leading role in starting the violence,' said a senior intelligence official. The questions investigators are raising are: Why was the factory gate locked after the workers had gone inside the general manager's office? Why were the workers carrying iron rods? Why was there no banner under which workers had gone to protest in spite of the fact that there were nine unions? The duration of the violence was about 45 minutes. It appears the workers began to ransack the office immediately on entering and were in no mood for dialogue. The incident has daubed Bengal's already tattered reputation in blood and a police report saying the violence was organised would be even more damning. 'Business and industry will once again lose confidence in the ability of the state to provide a positive work environment,' said C.K. Dhanuka, president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce. A notice has been put up at the factory gate, saying: 'All work in the factory will remain suspended indefinitely.' The administrative staff of the factory are spending every minute in fear of a recurrence even though the place was crawling with policemen today. 'I was hiding in a bathroom when they were beating our general manager and personnel manager with iron rods,' said Sitaram Pande, welfare officer of the mill. Pande said he managed to sneak away after the workers set the two executives ablaze. The management admitted to efforts to cut the workforce once the factory re-opened on December 23 after a nine-month closure. 'We were trying to cut the production cost,' said Ravi Thapa, production manager. There are 3,128 workers on the rolls against the full strength of 4,200. The rest of the workload is borne by 700 casual workers who are paid Rs 240 daily if they are called for duty. But casual workers alleged that they were not paid more than Rs 150. 'We were not given any work even though we had been told that we would get work every day. Even if they decided to give some work to us, they would never pay us adequately,' said Sambabu Sau. 'Some unknown people have been threatening us repeatedly after we chargesheeted two workers, Ashish Majumdar and Dilip Dhar, after they were found tampering with costly machines,' added Thapa. They were chargesheeted on December 13 and sacked last Friday. Strangely, no one has yet come forward as the owner of the factory. The administrative staff could not say who the owner was. 'Maybe it's Govind Sarda or some Chakraborty,' a senior official said. Even Baranagar police station is in the dark.