Thane, Nov 10 (PTI) A minor dispute over children bursting firecrackers turned violent in Maharashtra’s Thane district after three persons allegedly assaulted and verbally abused a man at a housing society, police said on Tuesday.
According to the police, the incident occurred around midnight on Sunday outside a residential complex in the Sonivali area of Badlapur when complainant Aditya Sharad Dhanawade (32) tried to intervene after an unidentified person began scolding children for bursting crackers nearby.
When Dhanawade requested the person to let the issue go, security guard Asif Altaf Hussain Shaikh (25) confronted him. Shaikh allegedly began verbally abusing Dhanawade before punching him. During the scuffle, Shaikh fell and sustained a minor head injury, an official said.
Shortly after the physical altercation, two other residents of the building, Shubham Sachin Jankar (22) and Savita Sachin Jankar (49), joined in and allegedly hurled abuses at the complainant, he said.
A non-cognisable (NC) offence has been registered against the Jankars and Shaikh under sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), he added.
