PARLIAMENT Police have cleared JCY HDD Technology of any wrongdoing in their investigations into the massive Kulai factory riots involving hundreds of foreign workers that took place in August.

Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Wan Jaafar told the Dewan Rakyat during Question Time today that the riots took place due to misunderstanding among the foreign workers themselves.

This is despite claims that the workers torched the factory as they were unhappy with the treatment from the employers.

"It was a misunderstanding among the workers, caused by the language barrier," Wan Junaidi ( left ) said in response to Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Kulai).

He denied that the riots involved 800 workers as alleged. Instead, he said, only 55 workers were guilty of being part of it.

"Fifty-two of them are Nepalese, two Bangladeshis, and one from Vietnam," he said.

Of that amount, 15 of them had been imprisoned for four months after being charged under Section 145 of the Penal Code and admitting their guilt.

Five were charged under the Immigration Act while another 35 were "chased" to their countries of origin, Wan Junaidi said.

"The fight took place because of misunderstanding among the workers and there is no element of mistreatment by the employers," he added.