Pune: The situation in Maval 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 on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday 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.
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