Maval firing: Situation peaceful; magisterial probe ordered

Pune, Aug 10 (PTI) The situation in Maval in the Western
Indian state of Maharashtra is peaceful and under control, a
day after three persons were killed there in the police firing
when a farmers' protest against a dam water pipeline project
turned violent.
A magisterial inquiry had been ordered into the firing in
which three farmers were killed and one seriously injured,
District collector Vikas Deshmukh told PTI.
He clarified that the figure of dead in the police firing
so far was three and not four as reported earlier and one of
the seriously injured was being treated at a hospital at
Talegaon.
Deshmukh said about 50 police personnel including 10
officers too were injured in the stone pelting in the farmers'
protest on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, near here, against a
closed pipeline project on the Pavna dam to facilitate water
supply to the industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad.
Many private and police vehicles were damaged in the
violence after the agitating farmers blocked the highway for
hours yesterday.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar
today visited the injured in hospitals to inquire about their
condition.
Shiv Sena spokesperson and MLC Neelam Gorhe demanded
Pawar's resignation, who is also Pune District Guardian
Minister, for "unwarranted" police firing at Maval, about 70
kms from here. PTI HBJ
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