Thane: Wagle Estate police has registered a case against unidentified persons for allegedly rioting and damaging dumpers following the death of a woman at the garbage segregation centre at C P Talao in the city.

"The tragedy occurred when around 50 women were segregating waste in a prohibited area of the transfer station. Rajashri Jadhav, who was one of the women, was hit by a dumper vehicle due to which she got stuck in an excavator," police said. The incident occurred on March 31.

An excavator operator allegedly picked her with the excavator bucket and threw her into the dumper, resulting in fatal injuries to Jadhav. The incident triggered outrage among bystanders at the site, police said.

About eight unidentified persons hurled stones at dumpers and spraying machines at the facility. A total of 14 dumpers were damaged in the violence, police said.

A Thane Municipal Corporation official lodged an FIR on April 2 under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including 189(2) (unlawful assembly), 190 (common object of unlawful assembly), 191(1), (2) (rioting) and others.

Sections of the Prevention of Destruction and Loss of Property Act were also invoked, police said.

In a related development, Shrinagar police has registered a case against the excavator driver Mohammad Sanaullah Farooque under section 106 (causing death by negligence) of the BNS.