Protestors demonstrating over Badlapur sexual assault were lathi-charged by police on Tuesday evening to break up the day-long rail roko agitation. Two girls aged three and four were allegedly sexually abused by an attendant at a kindergarten in Badlapur; the accused was arrested on August 17. 

PTI reported that the police used force to disperse hundreds of protestors around 6 pm, hours after they hurled stones at the railway station rejecting pleas from the state government and senior police officers to call off the demonstration which affected the suburban train services and forced diversion of some outstation trains.