A BJP corporator and fourteen others on Sunday were booked for the communal clash that broke out in Madhya Pradesh's Khujner town on Republic Day.
Five of them have been arrested so far, the police said.
Prohibitory orders were clamped in the area, where two groups of different communities had clashed at a Republic Day function.
The district administration had imposed prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144 in Khujner, banning assembly of five or more people, the police officer said.
Most of the shops remained closed in the town and additional police force was deployed to prevent any further flare-up, he said.
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Churner police station in-charge, inspector Ramkumar Raghuvanshi, said the situation in Khujner was under control.
He said both the groups had lodged cross-complaints based on which two separate FIRs were filed.
Fifteen people from both the communities, including BJP corporator Kamal Yadav, were booked and five of them arrested, Raghuvanshi said.
Yadav is not among those arrested.
All of them were booked under IPC sections related to rioting, armed with deadly weapon, voluntarily causing hurt, unlawful assembly and criminal intimidation, among others,
Raghuvanshi said.
In his Republic Day message Saturday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath had stressed on making communal harmony an integral part of society.
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He had called upon the people of the state to beware of forces that try to create rifts in society.
(PTI)
