Many vehicles were damaged on Wednesday in stonepelting by activists of the Republican Party of India, police said.
Updated at midnight
NASHIK: A Dalit youth was beaten to death by a mob here on Wednesday evening after they found him pelting stones at vehicles, police said.
Twenty three-year-old Rangnath Shankar Dhale, a resident of Muktidham, was pelting stones at vehicles on the Nashik Road to protest vandalisation of a statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar in Kanpur, a senior police official said.
A mob surrounded Dhale and started beating him, resulting in his death, the official said.
No arrests have been made in the case, he said.
Earlier in the day, this North Maharasthra city witnessed violence in protest against the statue vandalisation.
The situation in the city is tense but under control, police sources said.
Activists of the Dalit Sanghatana on Wednesday pelted stones and damaged buses at Devlaligaon, to protest against the alleged desecration, police said.
Windowpanes of six MSRTC buses were smashed at Nashik Road in Devlaligaon, while shopkeepers downed shutters in the area, they said.
Nashik city bus services to Nashik Road, Devlali Camp and Bhagur were affected.
AURANGABAD: Two policemen were injured in stonepelting at Sanjaynagar locality here, forcing the Mukundwadi police to open fire in the air to quell the mob.
Police sources at the city control room said the mob of about one thousand people resorted to stonepelting at the police at Sanjay Nagar.
The mob damaged five buses, two of them belonging to the state transport corporation, besides damaging a number of shops and business establishments in Jawahar Colony, Mukundwadi, Aamkhas, Pundliknagar and Harsul, police sources said.
The buses were stoned in various parts of the city including Jalna Road and Begampura.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Eknath Budhwant said police patrols had been intensified in the affected areas.
MUMBAI: Ten vehicles were damaged on Wednesday in stonepelting by activists of the Republican Party of India here over the alleged vandalisation, police said.
The incident occurred at Suman Nagar in North East Mumbai.
"The activists started gathering around 3:30 pm and soon some violence was also witnessed on the spot after some of them indulged in stonepelting," the police said.
The damaged vehicles include buses of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking, Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation and private vehicles, the police said.
The protestors were dispersed and the situation was under control, the police said, adding that no one was injured in the stonepelting.
No arrests have been made so far.
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