India, May 19 -- A private security guard fired his gun in the air during a dispute over possession of a plot in Agripada between two companies, each of which had hired separate private security firms. The Agripada police arrested 41 security guards fired by one of the firms on Sunday and produced them in the court. The guards were remanded to police custody for one day.

The police said that there has been a dispute between a pharmaceutical company and a real estate company since 2005 over the plot. Both the companies had deployed their security guards on the site. According to the police, a group of security guards deployed by the pharmaceutical company allegedly attacked guards hired by the real estate company with stones, bricks, chil...