One person injured after clash breaks out between two groups in Satara

A person was critically injured when members of two communities clashed at a village in Maharashtras Satara district following an objectionable post on social media police told news agency PTI on MondayThe incident which took place at Pusesawali village in Khatao tehsil on Sunday night led to tension between the two communities following which the police administration suspended Internet services in the district as a precautionary measure they saidSome houses were also damaged in the incident as per a senior district administration official The police said they have detained some persons reported PTIOne person was critically injured in the incident and currently receiving medical treatment a senior police official from Satara told PTIAn objectionable post by some youth from a community triggered tension between two communities leading to communal clashes and disturbance in law and order the official told PTIThe police promptly responded and the situation is now under control he statedAs a precautionary measure we have suspended Internet services in the district and we urge the public not to fall prey to any rumours the official told PTISecurity has been stepped in the area and some individuals have been detained the police told PTIMeanwhile a convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning police saidInitial findings suggest it to be a case of suicide they said adding the convict identified as Jitendra Babulal Shinde 32 was undergoing psychiatric treatmentThe man appeared to have used towel strips to hang himself from an iron bar above the door of his cell in the jail a police official saidAccording to the police a prison guard found Shinde hanging in his cell and alerted the other guardsThe prisoner was taken for a medical examination where he was declared dead an official from Yerawada police station saidIn 2017 a sessions court in Ahmednagar district sentenced three men including Shinde to death for the rape and murder of a 15yearold girl in Kopardi village of the district in 2016The victim who belonged to the Maratha community was found murdered after being raped on July 13 2016 in Kopardi villageThe accused had inflicted injuries all over her body and broken her limbs before throttling her police earlier saidThe incident had triggered widespread protests from the Maratha community who took out marches across the state over itThe other two convicts in the case are Santosh Gorakh Bhawal and Nitin Gopinath BhailumeWith inputs from PTI