Padmaavat row: Shops vandalised in Gurugram mall, Bhansali's film protesters suspect

Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor starrer Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmaavat is scheduled to release on January 25.

Over three dozen masked people on Monday attacked and vandalised shops in Raheja Mall, located on Sohna Road here, where controversial Bollywood movie Padmaavat is scheduled to be released on January 25, police said.

The eateries in the mall were mostly targeted by them.

A group of nearly three dozen people with their faces covered first blocked the traffic on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway. They also gathered on the Narsinghpur stretch of the expressway and blocked the traffic for some time.

The expressway was also blocked for some time by unidentified persons at Khandsa Road in the district.

"We are trying to find out whether the people involved in vandalism in the mall and those blocking the road were the same," a senior police officer told IANS

Earlier in the day, Shri Rajput Karni Sena chief Lokendra Singh Kalvi said: "The governments are all set to release of Bollywood movie 'Padmaavat' after the Supreme Court's order. We too are prepared to stop the Sanjay Leela Bhansali's flick which has a doctored version of the great history of the country."

Speaking to media persons, Kalvi spoke strongly against the release of the period drama, starring