Stone pelting in Muharram procession: 10 policemen injured, several vehicles damaged

A section of people taking out Muharram processions pelted stones on vehicles in traffic and clashed with police, injuring around 10 cops and damaging several vehicles,

It's said that, the unruly crowd started pelting stones on vehicles, after they were stopped from changing the designated route in west Delhi's Nangloi on Saturday, officials said.

As per reports, the police resorted to lathicharge in effort to disperse the "unruly crowd".

As per report, "Several 'tazia' processions were being carried out in Nagloi area and around eight to ten thousand people participated in them.

One or two organisers became unruly and tried to divert their procession route which was earlier decided. When police objected to it, they started pelting stones at police personnel. In order to control them, police resorted to a mild lathicharge and dispersed them from the area," report says.