Tension rose in Maharashtra’s Ahilyanagar on Sunday after a “I love Muhammad” graffiti appeared on a roadside rangoli in the Milliwada area. A video of the same went viral, following which Muslim youths protested who blocking the Ahilyanagar–Sambhaji Nagar highway on Monday.

And the protest turned violent, prompting police to baton-charge a stone-pelting mob, officials said, despite one person being arrested in connection with the graffiti, they added.

#WATCH : Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar), Maharashtra

Tension in Ahilyanagar after dispute over road named after Prophet Muhammad.

⚠️ Muslim community staged Rasta Roko protest on Nagar–Sambhajinagar Highway.

⁰👮 Police resorted to lathi-charge after one group turned aggressive.

⁰🔗… pic.twitter.com/EFrzgVFWK6 — The New Indian (@TheNewIndi

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