26/7/2018
PUNE: Shops in
some parts of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad were shut for a few hours on Tuesday
afternoon, but the city remained peaceful during the Maharashtra bandh called
by the Maratha Seva Sangh and Maratha Kranti Morcha.
A man was injured and several vehicles were damaged in
the stone pelting at Baramati near Pune. Joint police commissioner
Ravindra Kadam said, "The community's members conducted corner meetings in
the city and carried out morchas or rallies on a few roads. They did not force
owners to shut their shops. The police did not record any untoward incident in
the city," Kadam said. All police stations were on alert and patrolling
was enhanced in the city. A strong bandobast was enforced, Kadam added.
The meetings were organized at Alka Talkies chowk, old parts
of the city, Babasaheb Ambedkar chowk in Pimpri and other areas. The members
paid tribute to Kakasaheb Shinde who jumped into the waters of the Godavari
river in Aurangabad on Monday seeking reservation for the community. A rally
was organized in the afternoon from Mitra Mandal Chowk to Deccan.
In Pimpri, the protesters appealed to the traders to shut
their shops to support them. Additional superintendent of police (Baramati)
Sandeep Pakhale told pune-news.com that
a meeting organized by the community in Baramati turned violent on Tuesday
afternoon.
A man was injured in the stone pelting on government and
private vehicles. "We will register an offence of rioting against the
members of two different communities," he said. Three buses and some
police vans parked near Baramati state transport bus stand were damaged.
According to Highway Safety Patrol (HSP), Pune, the agitators
blocked the Pune-Satara section of the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway at Sarola, some
40 km from Pune, for 30 minutes. Protesters also staged a rasta roko on the
Pune-Solapur highway at Indapur for half an hour.
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