Three persons were injured and two shops set ablaze on Tuesday in communal clashes triggered by an incident of eve teasing prompting authorities to clamp curfew on parts of Dahod district town in central Gujarat.
Police lobbed teargas shells to quell rioting mobs.
The trouble erupted after a tribal woman was allegedly teased by a group of persons in a predominantly minority community in Court Road area, police said.
The woman complained about the incident to her brother who confronted the eve-teasers and was allegedly beaten up, police said.
Thereafter, groups of both communities took to the streets, brandishing swords and other sharp-edged weapons, police said.
The injured were rushed to Vadodara Civil Hospital and their condition was stable.
The situation is under control,
police said adding a company of state reserve police has reached the town
and another has been requisitioned from Godhra.