One held, 2 booked for bursting crackers near prison gate, assaulting constable

THANE: (Mar 19) Police have arrested a man and are trying to trace his two associates for allegedly bursting firecrackers outside a district jail in Maharashtra's Thane, and assaulting an on-duty constable there after he tried to stop them, an official said.

The incident took place outside the district jail at Adharwadi in Kalyan during the intervening night of March 14 and 15, he said, adding that the accused burst the crackers to celebrate the release of one of them from the prison on bail.

A case in this connection was filed based on a statement by Abhijit Sudam Koli (40), a senior officer at the district jail.