11 August,2023 06:14 PM IST | Dhule | mid-day online correspondent
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Twelve policemen were injured in stone pelting, following a scuffle between two groups on a highway in Maharashtra's Dhule district, police said on Friday, reported the PTI.
The incident took place on Mumbai-Agra Highway (NH-3) at Sangvi village in Shirpur taluka around 9.30 pm on Thursday, an official told the PTI.
A scuffle broke out between two groups, following which people staged a "raasta roko" blocking the movement of vehicles on the highway, he said.
On being alerted, the highway police's Shirpur in-charge Narendra Pawar and his personnel reached the scene and tried to restore traffic, when an angry mob started pelting stones at them, the official said, as per the PTI.
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Twelve police personnel were injured in the stone pelting and were rushed to a hospital, he said.
The mob also vandalised two vehicles of the highway police, and some important equipment and documents are missing, the official said, according to the PTI.
A first information report has been registered at Sangvi police station in Dhule and a probe into the incident is underway, he said.
Meanwhile, in an another incident, heavy deployment of police was put in place at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, Thane after a mob gathered there and questioned the authorities alleging the death of five persons in a day allegedly due to negligence, officials told the PTI.
The hospital authorities, however, denied the charge saying that only one patient died there during the day as against the allegation of five fatalities, according to the PTI.
By afternoon, the deployment of policemen was also reduced since the mob had dispersed and the situation was returning to normal at the civic-run hospital in Thane city on Friday, said an official, as per the PTI.
According to the news agency, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and MLA Jitendra Awhad also visited the hospital and alleged the five patients died due to negligence and also claimed that the hospital pretends to treat patients even after their death to make money.
Later in the day, he demanded that the state government take over the hospital from the Thane civic body for better management.
A group of around hundred people gathered at the civic-run hospital around 10.30 pm on Thursday. They questioned the hospital authorities over the death of patients accusing them of negligence. No untoward incident occurred, a personnel of Thane police control room told PTI.
After the incident, heavy deployment of police was put in place at the hospital, he said.
(with PTI inputs)
