On Thursday, the Calangute Police in Goa arrested three persons in connection with violence during the Maratha Reservation agitation in Navi Mumbai’s Kopar Khairane.

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Around 20 policemen, including eight officers, were injured in stone-pelting by protesters at Kopar Khairane and Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai during the bandh called by Maratha organisations to demand of quota for the community in government jobs and education.

Nine persons were injured when police caned protesters and fired pellets and rubber bullets on the violent mob yesterday, police said.

Police fired 40 shotgun rounds, 22 rubber bullets, 42 teargas shells and 11 teargas grenades to disperse the violent mob in Navi Mumbai yesterday, an official said.

Over 150 vehicles, including 20 belonging to police, were damaged in the violence, police said.

Protesters set fire to police vehicles in Kalamboli and Kopar Khairane, Navi Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale said.

Kopar Khairane was the worst-affected during yesterday's violence, a police officer said. A company of the State Reserve Police Force has been deployed there, along with local police personnel.

Shops, other commercial establishments, schools and colleges were open today even as an uneasy calm prevailed in the area.