Pune's Kothrud Police denied permission to Sangam Mitra Mandal to depict Afzal Khan's killing during ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival starting August 31. "In the past, law and order issues...reported due to such tableaux," police said. A riot broke out in Sangli in 2009 over a poster on the killing of Khan, Kutub Shah of Bijapur's lieutenant, by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.