A clash broke out between two groups during the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in Mumbai’s Malvani area, which resulted in some tension on Thursday night.
The police have registered a case against 300 people for jeopardising the atmosphere in the area. Meanwhile, 20 people have been arrested in connection to the case.
According to ANI, DCP Ajay Bansal, during the clash between the two groups, stones were hurled, which triggered panic in the area. Additional police force was called in and the police personnel used force to disperse the crowd.
“Tension prevailed for some time during the Ram Navami procession in the Malvani area but the police handled it and the situation is under control,” the DCP told ANI.
When the scuffle broke out on Thursday night, one person suffered minor injuries, for which, a case has been registered.
An FIR was registered under IPC sections 143, 147, 149, 324, 353, and 332 against the 300 and the police if probing the matter further.
Senior police officials and some local political leaders rushed to the spot and appealed for peace, he said.
In a similar incident on Thursday, around 22 people were caught for allegedly pelting stones in the Fatehpura area of Vadodara. A man was injured during the stone pelting that occurred during a procession on the occasion of Ram Navami.
Some of the injured persons told reporters that miscreants hurled stones on them from the terraces of nearby structures, as reported by PTI. Hours before that incident, stones were thrown at a Ram Navami procession, organised by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, in Fatehpura area.
Following the incident, Bajrang Dal's Vadodara unit chief Ketan Trivedi had claimed that the miscreants attacked the Ram Navami procession as part of a "planned conspiracy" and similar incidents had happened on several occasions in the past too, as reported by PTI.