India, March 17 -- Seven people of two separate groups were arrested in Ghaziabad on Sunday after they stone-pelted each other following a dispute at Adarsh Colony in Muradnagar on Saturday, officers said, adding that they have booked 19 people over the incident.

Police registered a first information report under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections for unlawful assembly and rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult to provoke breach of peace, criminal intimidation and acts endangering life and personal safety of others, they added.

The two groups belonged to the same community.

"It so happened that a young man from the second group gifted a mobile phone to a 16-year-old girl from the first group. The girl told this to her ...