Five persons were arrested by the Naya Nagar police on Tuesday for allegedly abusing and misbehaving with Palghar BJP MP Rajendra Gavit inside a garden where he had gone for his morning jog at Mira Road civic garden at 7 am.

The BJP MP was walking on green lawn track when he spotted the watchman having an altercation with a group of five people. As per rules by the MBMC, no shoes are allowed on the green lawns of the civic garden but that group was playing kabaddi wearing shoes. The civic garden watchman Prahlad Janardhan Mihir objected to it and told them to remove the shoes to prevent the lawns getting destroyed. That resulted in a tiff which is when Gavit who was walking at the spot intervened.