Bhopal, Dec 18 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh’s Suptara village remained calm Friday, a day after communal tensions flared up over a piece of meat being allegedly thrown inside a temple premises, police said.
At least three people were arrested Thursday and prohibitory orders clamped in the village in Sivni town, nearly 400 km from here, in connection with the violence that erupted.

“Some objectionable object (a piece of meat) was found within the premises of a temple in the village Thursday evening following which activists of a few Hindu organsations came out and pelted stones at people belonging to the other community. Soon it became a free for all,” a police official said.

The police reached the spot and brought the situation under control by resorting to cane charge.

“Three people have been arrested for flaring up communal passions,” Sivni Police Superintendent R.N. Sikarwar told IANS.