The Khargone police in Madhya Pradesh registered a case against unidentified persons after a video surfaced showing a purported call to boycott members of a particular community, officials said on Tuesday.
In the clip, which went viral on social media, the boycott announcement was being made from a truck-mounted sound system, and accusing a community of spreading violence in Khargone.
Meanwhile, the Khargone district administration has started work on installing 121 CCTV cameras at different locations, including those where stone-pelting was reported during the Ram Navami celebration on April 10, the officials said.
Local administration relaxed the curfew hours in the violence-hit town for nine hours -- from 8 am to 5 pm -- for the fourth day in a row on Tuesday and allowed plying of passenger buses during the period.
Communal clashes had erupted in Khargone on April 10, during which shops and houses were damaged, vehicles torched and stones hurled.
Subsequently, curfew was clamped in the city but is being relaxed since April 14.
Khargone's in-charge superintendent of police Rohit Kashwani said after they came to know about the boycott call video, a case was registered on Monday night against unidentified persons on charges of spreading enmity between different groups.
Karahi police station in-charge Parmanand Goyal said the case was registered under Indian Penal Code Section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion).
The case was being investigated and people involved were being identified, he said.
He said as per preliminary information, the announcement purportedly heard in the video was made on April 19 in Katargaon, located nearly 60 km from the district headquarters.
Sub-divisional magistrate Milind Dhoke told PTI that the administration was looking into the video clip.
"The video is not clear. After an investigation into the case, further legal steps will be taken," Dhoke said.
Meanwhile, Khargone municipal council's chief Priyanka Patel in a statement said the police administration has given a list of locations where CCTVs need to be installed.
Based on the list, work has been started to install 121 CCTV cameras at 36 locations, at a cost of Rs 64 lakh.
Kashwani said they have also recovered a pistol used by Mohsin aka Waseem, who was arrested last week in connection with the firing at SP Siddharth Chaudhary during the violence on Ram Navami.
The accused told the police that he had purchased the pistol from one Toofan Singh, who will also be questioned, the official said.
Choudhary is currently undergoing medical treatment after sustaining a bullet injury in his leg.