Throwing water balloons from your housing society in Thane could get you and the office bearers of your society arrested. The Thane police have started sending notices to societies in the run-up to Holi, asking them to warn residents to refrain from the practice or risk being booked.

The notices have asked society office bearers to call together a meeting to inform them not to throw water balloons from the premises, onto the streets. If people are found doing so, its chairman and secretary are also likely to be booked, along with the culprit in question. Police said throwing water balloons is a common practice by mischief-mongers on Holi.