August 10, 2011 2:19 PM

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Situation in Maval peaceful and under control

In Maharasthra, the situation in Maval is peaceful and under control, a day after three persons was killed in the police firing when a farmers' protest against a dam water pipeline project turned violent. A magisterial inquiry had been ordered into the firing in which three farmers were killed and one seriously injured. District collector Vikas Deshmukh said, the figure of dead in the police firing so far was three and not four as reported earlier and one of the seriously injured was being treated at a hospital at Talegaon.Deshmukh said about 50 police personnel including 10 officers too were injured in the stone pelting in the farmers' protest on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, against a closed pipeline project on the Pavna dam to facilitate water supply to the industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad. Many private and police vehicles were damaged in the violence after the agitating farmers blocked the highway for hours yesterday.Meanwhile, the district administration has issued an oral advisory to temporarily halt the ongoing work on the Pavna river dam pipeline project that led to the violence. Pune District Collector Vikas Deshmukh told PTI that he had orally advised the commissioner of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to suspend work so as to defuse the prevailing situation till final orders are received from the state government on the issue.

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