Indian police late on Monday released most of the 104 striking workers at a Samsung Electronics plant who were detained for planning a protest march without permission, with the dispute disrupting output at the factory for the past week.

Police in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have detained nearly 150 Samsung plant workers and union leaders for planning a protest march without permission. Several hundred workers have been on strike protesting low wages in a makeshift tent near the Samsung Electronics plant outside the state capital of Chennai for over a week.

Samsung workers at its India plant will continue their strike for the fifth day after negotiations involving the union, company management, and state government officials failed to produce a settlement.

Police have detained 104 striking workers protesting low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in southern India as they were planning a march on Monday without permission, officials said. The detention marks an escalation of a strike by workers at a Samsung home appliance plant near Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu.

The Tamil Nadu police have feed most of the 104 Samsung Electronics workers detained on Monday late for planning an unauthorised protest march near the company's home appliance plant in the state. The workers have been on strike for more than a week,

By Rishika Sadam and Praveen Paramasivam CHENNAI (Reuters) -Indian police have detained around 100 striking workers and union leaders protesting low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in southern India,