Nearly 200 people have been booked and 33 of them arrested by Mumbai Police for allegedly attacking policemen and damaging vehicles during the funeral procession of a man who committed suicide after being unable to trace his teen daughter, an official said on Wednesday.
Around seven police personnel were injured in the attack on Tuesday, he said.
Pancharam Rithadiya, 44, allegedly committed suicide last week by jumping in front of a running train at Tilak Nagar railway station here after not being able find his 17- year-old daughter missing since some months.
In the suicide note, he purportedly mentioned that the police did not help him in tracing his daughter.
After his death, Wadala GRP registered an offence of abatement to suicide against five persons.
During his funeral procession to a crematorium in suburban Chembur on Tuesday, mourners allegedly hurled stones at the police and also vandalised a police van and some other vehicles, Additional Commissioner of Police (east region) Lakhmi Gautam told PTI.
"Seven police personnel, including four officers, were injured in the attack," he said.
A police van, a taxi, a car, 10 to 12 motorcycles and three auto-rickshaws were damaged in the incident, another police official said