India, July 19 -- The Marine Drive police have registered a first information report (FIR) and arrested two persons in connection with the scuffle that broke out between supporters of NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad and BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar in the lobby of the Vidhan Bhawan on Thursday afternoon.

A separate FIR has been registered against Awhad for allegedly trying to obstruct policemen from performing their duty while they were apprehending his supporter Nitin Deshmukh - one of the two persons arrested over the scuffle - in the early hours on Friday.

Both Deshmukh and Sarjerao Takle alias Hrishikesh, considered close to BJP's Padalkar, were produced in court on Friday and remanded in police custody for three days. Both are implicated...