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Bhima protests hit Mumbai

Dalits take to streets, call for Maharashtra bandh

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Stone pelters took to the streets in Chembur, Deonar, Kurla and Mankhurd on Tuesday
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Several parts in Mumbai were tense on Tuesday following clashes at Bhima Koregaon near Pune on Monday, with protests impacting road, rail and public transport in the city.

As Dalits took the streets to protest clashes, at least 20 buses and 40 private vehicles were damaged, and 84 train services were cancelled. Protests by the Dalit community were most severe in the eastern suburbs of Chembur, Ghatkopar, Bhandup and Vikhroli. Violence also shut down traffic on the Eastern Express Highway and Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road. Harbour Line train services were most affected near Chembur as protesters engaged in rail roko.

Bharatiya Republican Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar has called for a Maharashtra Bandh on Wednesday (today), but has appealed his followers to not resort to violence.

Train services between Kurla-Vashi were shut for more than two hours. Auto rickshaws and buses were also damaged by stone pelting and several of them remained off roads in Mulund, Chembur, Govandi, Vikhroli and Ghatkopar.

"At least 15 percent of our total auto rickshaws did not ply due to the agitation. Drivers refused people fearing damage to their vehicles," said Shashank Rao, president, Mumbai Auto Rickshawmen Union.

At least 20 BEST buses and few bus stops were damaged, mostly in Chembur, Deonar, Amar Mahal, Kurla and Mulund. "The windows of our buses were shattered by stone pelting," said a BEST official.

"I was going from Andheri to Chembur at around 1.30pm in a cab, when all of a sudden, there was this huge mob that stopped all vehicles," said P Sharma, who got stuck in this agitation.

"We operated 52 special trains between CSMT-Kurla and Panvel-Mankhurd stations," said a CR official. The train services on the Main line and Harbour line remained affected, and by 6 pm, 84 train services had to be cancelled

Mumbai police have detained 100 persons from different locations in the city. A mob burned down police barricades on Eastern Express Highway and five police personnel, including a woman constable, three other constables and an assistant commissioner of police were injured.

In Pune, heavy police bandobast was deployed at Bhima Koregaon. After the violence, a large number of people – who were stuck at Bhima Koregaon – were safely evacuated. While rural parts of Pune district remained calm, there were some incidents of stone-pelting and rasta roko in Hadapsar, Pimpri, Yerwada and Vishrantwadi in Pune city.

Elsewhere in the state, routine life was disturbed in parts of Aurangabad, Karad, Sangli, Karad, Ahmednagar, Solapur and Nashik districts.

Within hours of Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh president Prakash Ambedkar accusing right winger Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide of provoking people at Bhima Koregaon, a case under of SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act and other sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against Ekbote and Bhide at Pimpri police station.

The police have also booked the duo under Section 307 for Attempting Murder, Section 147 and 148 for Rioting, and also under the Arms Act. The case was registered on Tuesday after a woman, Anita Sawale, approached the police with a complaint application against Bhide and Ekbote.

Senior inspector Vivek Mugalikar said, "We have registered a case. However, since the alleged incident has taken place near Vadhu, we will be transferring the case to Shirur police station."

Nine separate cases of rioting were registered in five different police stations in Mumbai. The police arrested 15 persons, and detained over 100 persons. A Shiv Sena party office was also vandalised in Chembur and police had to resort to mild Lathi Charge at Chembur Naka and Amar Mahal to disperse the crowd. The police are in the process of registering more FIRs.

CM orders probe into violence

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered a judicial inquiry, by sitting a High Court judge, into the violence and arson that erupted in Pune district on Monday. Fadnavis also announced a CID inquiry into the death of the youth in Pune district caused by this violence and announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh for his next of kin.

TODAY’S BANDH

  • Edu min says no holiday for schools and junior colleges
     
  • School bus operators refuse to ply as a precaution
     
  • Mumbai University exams to run as per schedule
     
  • Chembur, Amar Mahal, Ghatkopar, Govandi, Trombay, Deonar, Mankhurd may get impacted

CASUALTIES

  • 5 Police Personnel injured
     
  • 9 Cases of rioting registered
     
  • 15 Arrested
     
  • 100 Detained
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