Tension gripped Katol town in Maharashtra's Nagpur district, around 40 km from here, following the arrest of a leader of Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) on Friday after he allegedly called for social boycott of a particular community after the death of a woman, police said.

The PWP leader, Rahul Deshmukh (50), was arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and The Maharashtra Protection of People from Social Boycott Act, they said. He is accused of inciting people for the social boycott of a particular community, an official of Nagpur rural police said.