The incident took place on Tuesday evening following which five jail inmates were arrested
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Two prison staffers were injured when they tried to intervene during a clash between two groups of inmates in the Yerwada Central Jail in Maharashtra's Pune city, a police official said on Wednesday.
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The incident took place on Tuesday evening following which five jail inmates were arrested, he said.
A group of inmates allegedly threw stones and pieces of tiles on another group inside a cell, the official from Yerwada police station said.
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"When the jail personnel tried to intervene, some of the inmates who were throwing stones roughed up two prison staffers, injuring them," he said.
Based on a complaint, five of the inmates were later arrested and booked under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, he added.
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