The situation in Maval is peaceful and under control, a day after three persons were killed there in the police firing when a farmers’ protest against a dam water pipeline project turned violent.

A magisterial inquiry had been ordered into the firing in which three farmers were killed and one seriously injured, District collector Vikas Deshmukh said on Wednesday.

He clarified that the figure of dead in the police firing so far was three and not four as reported earlier and one of the seriously injured was being treated at a hospital at Talegaon.

Deshmukh said about 50 police personnel including 10 officers too were injured in the stone pelting in the farmers’ protest on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, near Pune, against a closed pipeline project on the Pavna dam to facilitate water supply to the industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad.

Many private and police vehicles were damaged in the violence after the agitating farmers blocked the highway for hours on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday visited the injured in hospitals to inquire about their condition.

Shiv Sena spokesperson and MLC Neelam Gorhe demanded Pawar’s resignation, who is also Pune District Guardian Minister, for “unwarranted” police firing at Maval.

Meanwhile, the district administration has issued an oral advisory to temporarily halt the ongoing work on the Pavna river dam pipeline project that led to the violence.

Pune District Collector Vikas Deshmukh said that he had “orally” advised the commissioner of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to suspend work so as to defuse the prevailing situation till final orders are received from the state government on the issue.

In a separate development, relatives of the three victims killed in police firing on Tuesday have refused to take possession of their bodies till an assurance is given by the administration that the project, conceived to facilitate water supply to Pimpri chinchwad Industrial Township, is scrapped.

Deshmukh added he was sorting out the grievance of the concerned relatives at Sassoon hospital in Pune and was hopeful of an early amicable settlement over the issue.