Police have registered four cases against more than 500 persons and detained 17 of them on charges of indulging in arson and damaging property during the clashes in Yavat village in Daund tehsil of Pune district over an alleged objectionable post, officials said on Saturday, reported news agency PTI.

The youth who uploaded the social media post has also been arrested and a separate case was registered against him, they said.

Communal tension erupted and separate incidents of violence were reported in Yavat village on Friday afternoon in which groups of persons, angered by the social media post, vandalised and set ablaze properties.