Former MP Prakash Ambedkar yesterday said the police restrained him from visiting the Kopardi village, where a 15-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped and murdered a few days ago. “I was on the way to Kopardi with party workers to visit the girl’s family. However, when we reached halfway, Ahmednagar police requested me not to visit the village citing law and order situation, and also served me a notice (barring entry),” the grandson of Dr B R Ambedkar said.

“I was told that some people in the village had a meeting yesterday [Tuesday] and they have decided to throw eggs and tomatoes at me if I went there,” he said. Superintendent of Police, Ahmednagar, Saurabh Tripathi said police asked Ambedkar to return as the situation in the village was “tense”.