The Maddur Police booked three separate cases against the protesters for allegedly fomenting trouble during the march through the town on Monday to condemn the stone-pelting incident against a Ganesha immersion procession the previous night.
Superintendent of Mandya district police Mallikarjun Baladandi told The Hindu over phone on Tuesday that one case registered against five persons pertained to the alleged pelting of stones at a place of worship, while another case was against an unspecified number of persons involved in tearing the buntings and flags that were put up in a locality.
The third case had been booked against a woman for hurling abuses against a religious community, he said.
It may be mentioned here that a large number of people had turned up for the march taken out through the streets of Maddur on Monday in response to a call by BJP and its front organisations to condemn the pelting of stones at a Ganesha idol procession in Ram Rahim Nagar of Maddur town on Sunday night.
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