Overview

• Violence broke out near midnight in Vadodara’s Panigate and Juni Ghadi areas after a post allegedly targeting a community circulated online.
• Police said a crowd gathered outside the City police station seeking an FIR before groups dispersed into the walled city and stone-pelting followed.
• Officers reported damage to a Navratri pandal and parked vehicles in Zunigarhi as they moved to restore order.
• Vadodara police detained about 50 people, began lodging an FIR in the rioting case, and launched combing operations with CCTV reviews to identify suspects.
• In a separate incident in Godhra on September 18, police used lathi-charge and tear gas to disperse a crowd that had surrounded a station after a rumour over a religious post.