The Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra have detained a chairman of a housing society at Taloja after he and some others allegedly threatened a group of residents for lighting up their residential complex on the occasion of Diwali, an official said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, and based on a complaint, the police registered a case under sections 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the accused, he said, as per the PTI.