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At least 15 police personnel, five civic engineers and an equal number of labourers were injured in the stone-pelting during the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) drive in Jai Bhim Nagar slum on Thursday.
“The police have filed a case against 200 persons and apprehended 57 of them on the charge of obstructing public servants from discharging their duty and rioting in connection with the stone-pelting at police and BMC officials. They were remanded in judicial custody,” the official said on Friday.
The BMC earlier said temporary huts had come up on a plot in Powaigaon and Mauje Tirandaj village and the State Human Right Commission had directed the civic body to take action against these structures.
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A video of the stone-pelting incident went viral on social media. It showed men and women throwing stones and police and civic staff running for cover.