Sacked workers in India beat to death the boss of an Italian company that had laid them off, police said Tuesday. Scores of former employees at car parts maker Graziano Transmissioni attacked local chief executive Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, 47, when a meeting to discuss a long-running labour dispute turned violent, police said. "Twenty-three people are still in hospital," superintendent of police Babu Ram said. Chaudhary, a father with one son, was hit on the head with either a stick or an iron rod and was declared dead on arrival at hospital, police said.