The police in Maharashtra’s Ahilyanagar district have detained 30 persons after a group of Muslims protested against graffiti with the message “I love Muhammad” painted on a road, PTI reported on Monday.

Demonstrators on Monday blocked the arterial Ahilyanagar-Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Road, even though one person had been arrested for the graffiti, the news agency quoted an unidentified official as saying.

“Even as police urged them to maintain law and order, some persons from the mob started pelting stones,” the official said. “Police resorted to lathi-charge to restore normalcy.”

A video of the graffiti was widely shared on social media on Sunday night, sparking protests on Monday, The Indian Express reported.

Ahilyanagar Superintendent of Police Somnath Gharge said that actio

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