The Maharashtra home department should investigate whether recent incidents of violence follow any pattern or happened out of misunderstanding, state Nationalist Congress Party chief Jayant Patil said on Tuesday.
According to police, the Instagram account had an extended communication with a member of the minority community in which both users hurled abuses and made communal remarks.
Gaikwad, who was the sole breadwinner in the family, stayed in a 10x10 square feet room with his wife and three children at Bhagat Singh Nagar in Akola, where he had been working as an electrician for two decades.
A clash broke out between members of two communities in Maharashtra's Akola city over a social media post following which Section 144 of the CrPC to prevent unlawful assembly of people was imposed in parts of the city, officials said on Sunday.