Farmer shot dead, Mum-Pune Expressway blocked

August 09, 2011 13:44

Rediff.com's N Ganesh reports that traffic on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has come to standstill after an agitation by farmers turned violent when one of the protestors was shot dead by the police.

The farmers from Maval Taluka in Pune had been protesting this morning and had camped on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and the old Mumbai-Pune Highway as well.

The protestors were agitating against their land being acquired for a project that would provide more water for the urban population of Pimpri-Chinchwad.

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