An angry mob, that was part of the funeral procession of 44-year-old Pancharam Rithadiya, went on rampage at Chembur on Tuesday afternoon. Rithadiya had committed suicide claiming inaction by the police in rescuing his teenaged daughter from a family that he alleged had kidnapped her. Around 2,000 people held up traffic for a couple of hours and damaged vehicles and attacked the police, who launched a lathi charge to disperse them. The police have not revealed the damage caused or the number of people detained.

Rithadiya, a Tilak Nagar resident, had alleged that Nehru Nagar police were not doing anything to bring back his 17-year-old daughter, Aarti, 'kidnapped' by a family. The police had registered a case of kidnapping against five members of the family and during investigation found that girl had gone to them willingly. Claiming that the police were not doing anything, Rithadiya committed suicide on October 13.

The Wadala GRP had registered another case against members of the same family for abetting his suicide. Mid-day had reported that Rithadiya's family had refused to accept his body from the morgue at Sion Hospital as a mark of protest against the delay in finding his daughter (Family refuses to claim body of kin who committed suicide as protest, mid-day, October 18). Locals at Thakkar Bappa Colony in Chembur also boycotted the assembly elections in support of Rithadiya's family's fight for justice (A total boycott by Thakkar Bappa Colony residents, mid-day October 22).