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Photos: Maharashtra bandh after Dalit protests over Pune violence

Mumbai remains tense as Maharashtra braces for a bandh called by Dalit groups after protestors burnt vehicles, blocked railway tracks and pelted stones over the death of a 28-year-old man on the bicentennial celebrations of a British-era war in Pune district.

Updated on: Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM IST

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Dalit protesters burnt PM Narendra Modi and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis effigies at Lokmanya Nager, Thane. Security has been stepped up in Mumbai in view of a bandh called by a Dalit group. Several towns and cities in Maharashtra are on the edge over protests against the Pune violence over the death of a 28-year-old man near the bicentennial celebrations of a British-era war in Pune. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Dalit protesters burnt PM Narendra Modi and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis effigies at Lokmanya Nager, Thane. Security has been stepped up in Mumbai in view of a bandh called by a Dalit group. Several towns and cities in Maharashtra are on the edge over protests against the Pune violence over the death of a 28-year-old man near the bicentennial celebrations of a British-era war in Pune. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

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Train services are badly affected after rail rokos on all three corridors of the Central Railway as well as on the Western Railway. The CR main line hit between Kurla and Thane. Protesters also block trains at Dadar. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Train services are badly affected after rail rokos on all three corridors of the Central Railway as well as on the Western Railway. The CR main line hit between Kurla and Thane. Protesters also block trains at Dadar. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

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Protesters block a road in Mumbai’s Bandra on Wednesday. Though many taxi-auto rickshaw unions have supported the shutdown, Mumbai’s lifeline, the suburban trains and the BEST (Bombay Electric Supply And Transport) bus services were plying near-normally, with delays and thin crowds. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Protesters block a road in Mumbai’s Bandra on Wednesday. Though many taxi-auto rickshaw unions have supported the shutdown, Mumbai’s lifeline, the suburban trains and the BEST (Bombay Electric Supply And Transport) bus services were plying near-normally, with delays and thin crowds. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Protesters demonstrate against the death of a 28-year-old man in Bhima Koregaon, Pune on January 01, 2018. Hundreds of thousands of people gather at Bhima Koregaon every year to mark the anniversary of an 1818 war between the British and the Peshwa. Many Dalit leaders believe the war was won by the British with the help of Dalit soldiers, who defeated a large army of the Peshwa, who was said to have instituted oppressive caste practices. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Protesters demonstrate against the death of a 28-year-old man in Bhima Koregaon, Pune on January 01, 2018. Hundreds of thousands of people gather at Bhima Koregaon every year to mark the anniversary of an 1818 war between the British and the Peshwa. Many Dalit leaders believe the war was won by the British with the help of Dalit soldiers, who defeated a large army of the Peshwa, who was said to have instituted oppressive caste practices. (HT Photo)

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The celebrations gathered momentum in 1927 after BR Ambedkar visited the spot and called the Bhima Koregaon battle a war against caste. Historians are divided on the subject. But this year, the celebrations have been controversial with several right wing groups, such as the Akhil Bharatiya Brahmin Mahasangh, calling the event anti-national. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

The celebrations gathered momentum in 1927 after BR Ambedkar visited the spot and called the Bhima Koregaon battle a war against caste. Historians are divided on the subject. But this year, the celebrations have been controversial with several right wing groups, such as the Akhil Bharatiya Brahmin Mahasangh, calling the event anti-national. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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Members of the Dalit community protest at Powai in Mumbai. Protesters damaged at least 20 government buses near Chembur, blocked roads and halted services on the city’s harbour railway line for about 15 minutes, police said. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Members of the Dalit community protest at Powai in Mumbai. Protesters damaged at least 20 government buses near Chembur, blocked roads and halted services on the city’s harbour railway line for about 15 minutes, police said. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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Torched and vandalized vehicles at Bhima Koregaon, Pune. The protests also took a political colour with Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar blaming the government for not preventing Monday’s violence. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Torched and vandalized vehicles at Bhima Koregaon, Pune. The protests also took a political colour with Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar blaming the government for not preventing Monday’s violence. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo)

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Indian policemen walk past the broken window of a bus after a Republican Party of India (RPI) protest turned violent in Mumbai. In Thane, hundreds of protesters sat on the roads, forced shops to down shutters and smashed seven state-owned buses. Reports of violence and stone pelting were also reported from Pune and Solapur with police blaming workers from the Republican Party of India (RPI). (AFP)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Indian policemen walk past the broken window of a bus after a Republican Party of India (RPI) protest turned violent in Mumbai. In Thane, hundreds of protesters sat on the roads, forced shops to down shutters and smashed seven state-owned buses. Reports of violence and stone pelting were also reported from Pune and Solapur with police blaming workers from the Republican Party of India (RPI). (AFP)

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Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis called for a judicial probe into the death of Rahul Phatangale, who succumbed to his injuries on Monday evening after being hit with stones during violence near Bhima Koregaon, around 40 kilometres from Pune. Four people were injured in the violence and around 40 vehicles burnt or damaged. (Vijayanand Gupta / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis called for a judicial probe into the death of Rahul Phatangale, who succumbed to his injuries on Monday evening after being hit with stones during violence near Bhima Koregaon, around 40 kilometres from Pune. Four people were injured in the violence and around 40 vehicles burnt or damaged. (Vijayanand Gupta / HT Photo)

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Riot police walk past a damaged public bus during a protest in Mumbai. Police also said that the situation was under control and that shops weren’t forcibly shut in Mulund. “People who took part in the agitation requested shopkeepers to close their shops,” said Shripad Kale, senior police inspector, Mulund police station (Danish Siddiqui / REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Riot police walk past a damaged public bus during a protest in Mumbai. Police also said that the situation was under control and that shops weren’t forcibly shut in Mulund. “People who took part in the agitation requested shopkeepers to close their shops,” said Shripad Kale, senior police inspector, Mulund police station (Danish Siddiqui / REUTERS)

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Dalit protesters protest at Powai against after Bhima Koregaon violence. Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar blamed the police for lax arrangements and has called for a statewide bandh. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

Dalit protesters protest at Powai against after Bhima Koregaon violence. Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar blamed the police for lax arrangements and has called for a statewide bandh. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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“The Bhima Koregaon incident took place due to inefficiency of the police department. We have demanded that the police commissioner and the deputy commissioner there should be suspended,” said Rambhau Tayade, president of RPI, Thane city. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 03, 2018 4:04 PM

“The Bhima Koregaon incident took place due to inefficiency of the police department. We have demanded that the police commissioner and the deputy commissioner there should be suspended,” said Rambhau Tayade, president of RPI, Thane city. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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