The Mumbai Police registered 16 FIRs and detained over 300 people in connection with protests by Dalit groups during the day-long bandh yesterday against the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes, while Internet services were suspended in Kolhapur following tension in the district.
Over 200 buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation were damaged in attacks by protesters across the state during the bandh, MSRTC officials said.
In Mumbai, 16 FIRs were registered at various police stations and more than 300 people detained, police said.
In Kolhapur, the home district of social reformist late Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, the protesters yesterday attacked 13 buses of the civic corporation, an official said.
The Kolhapur district police has suspended Internet services till midnight today as a precautionary measure, an official said.
Protests by Dalit groups were held in the district yesterday followed by counter-rallies led by Shiv Sena MLA Rajesh Kshirsagar.
In Parbhani district of Marathwada region, an office of the RSS was attacked yesterday, police said.
The agitators raised anti-RSS slogans, the Parbhani police said, adding no major damage to property was reported.
In Nilanga, the home town of state labour minister Sambhaji Patil Nilangekar in Latur district, around 40 two-wheelers and 10 to 12 four-wheelers were damaged by a mob, police said.