The police stated that hundreds of people gathered near the cremation ground violating the lockdown and protesting against the cremation of woman who was a coronavirus suspect.
On Monday evening, the Pune Police had arrested three accused involved in physically assaulting an on-duty police constable, Shankar Kalkute, in Kalewadi area of Pune in Maharashtra.
The health-care experts believe that the situation in Bengal is very grave as the Mamata Banerjee-led government has not been giving real data to assess the actual seriousness of the pandemic.