According to police, a Station House Officer (SHO) sustained a bullet injury and two Special Armed Police (SAP) jawans were injured in stone pelting.
The incident took place late Saturday night on Maniyari-Baroda Road under Panagar police station, located about 30 km from the Jabalpur district headquarters, they said.
The incident occurred on the road outside the Bhopal railway station on late Saturday night when the procession was moving forward, Bajaria police station in-charge Umesh Yadav told PTI.
The incident occurred in Chowk police station in Patna city near Janata hotel, when the two groups on way for immersion of Durga idols in river Ganga, had an altercation over a trivial issue.
"Durga idol immersion procession was being taken out when a vehicle crossing over to MP dashed into it at Pathalgaon. One died, 2 critically injured, 15 received minor injuries," the SP said.
The victims were the residents of Bhavanpura village in Agra district, Uttar Pradesh,
“Studies carried out to assess deterioration in water quality due to idol immersion reveal deterioration of water quality in respect to conductivity, biochemical oxygen demand and heavy metal concentration,” the pollution control body said.
The police said his body was recovered from the canal with the help of divers on Tuesday morning around 6.30 a.m.
According to the reports, requests were made to lower the volume of music during the immersion as it was 'namaaz' time at a nearby mosque. The requests were not complied with and an argument ensued that snowballed into a physical fight between the groups, as large crowd collected at the spot.
Calling the incident as 'unfortunate', deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said that the Election Commission must probe the incident and take appropriate action.
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Idol immersion in the Yamuna river was banned following an order by the National Green Tribunal in 2015.
Sikandarpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate Annapurna Garg said the incident took place on Wednesday around 4 pm after a group of six boys had finished immersing idols of Goddess Lakshmi.
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