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350 booked for Jalna riot; cop vehicle in Sharad Pawar convoy stoned | India News

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CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Jalna police have booked 350 people in connection with the violence at Antarwali Saraati village on Friday evening even as the situation remained tense in the area for the second day.
Protesters demanding Maratha quota hurled stones on a police vehicle in the convoy of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who was on his way to the village, on Saturday. Pawar was unhurt.
On Saturday, protesters torched tyres and logs on highways in Jalna, Aurangabad, Beed and Osmanabad districts. In Jalna city, protesters resorted to stone-pelting and set afire some vehicles, including a truck. Jalna superintendent of police Tushar Doshi was injured during stone-pelting.
Sixty-four policemen in Jalna alone have been injured in the violence till Saturday evening. Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde has appealed for calm. Besides Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Ashok Chavan, Sanjay Raut, Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje Bhosale and Udyanraje Bhosale, among others, reached Jalna on Saturday.


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