Vehicles were set on fire, stones were thrown at police personnel - who retaliated with a lathi charge and a volley of tear gas shells - and the highway between Tonk and Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan was blocked Thursday afternoon after police arrested ex-Congress leader Naresh Meena.
The violence carried over from late last night, when police tried to arrest Meena - an independent candidate in the Deoli-Uniara by-poll who was caught on camera assaulting a district official.