Palghar lynching case: CID names 218 new accused, arrests 50; BJP leader Ram Kadam demands CBI probe
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Palghar lynching case: CID names 218 new accused, arrests 50; BJP leader Ram Kadam demands CBI probe

Mumbai: In a significant improvement, Maharashtra’s CID has named 218 new accused and arrested 50 of them in reference to the sensational mob-lynching of two sadhus and their driver on April 16 this yr

Besides, the CID has additionally arrested 24 extra accused in reference to the Palghar mob lynching incident. With this, the full variety of accused arrested within the case to this point has risen to 376. They all will likely be produced earlier than the Dahanu Court on Thursday.

Simultaneously, the bail pleas of 70 accused shall be heard on Thursday by Special Sessions Judge PP Jadhav at Thane Sessions Court.

Incidentally, of the 376 accused to this point, 28 adults and 9 juveniles have been launched on a default bail because the CID chargesheet didn’t specify their precise involvement within the crime owing to lack of proof.

On the night time of April 16, two seers of the Juna Akhada – Kalpavrikshagiri Maharaj, 70, his assistant Sushilgiri Maharaj, 35, and their driver Nilesh Telgade, 30 – have been waylaid close to the Gandhchinchale village by a 1,000-strong mob of villagers, on the top of the lockdown.

Mistaking them to be kidnappers, the villagers pounced on them and brutally assaulted them with sticks, rods and stones, ensuing of their loss of life, whilst a small posse of policemen seemed on.

The subsequent morning, it resulted in an enormous outcry and kicked off a nationwide political furore whereas the state authorities initiated fire-fighting measures.

The (then) Palghar Superintendent of Police Gaurav Singh was shunted on obligatory depart and changed by Dattatray Shinde. In one other unprecedented penal motion in opposition to so many police officers for a single incident, the previous Kasa Police Station head Anandrao Kale was dismissed and two others slapped with obligatory retirement orders.

Following a full-fledged departmental probe, 15 extra policemen have been penalised with a freeze on promotions and salaries, increments for specified various intervals for his or her conduct throughout the incident.

Meanwhile, BJP chief Ram Kadam has expressed issues over the shoddy probe into the Palghar lynching case and requested for a CBI probe.

In a tweet, wherein he tagged Maharashtra’s Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, Kadam mentioned, “No passable improvement in #palgharsadhulynching @OfficeofUT @AnilDeshmukhNCP Request to provide the case to #CBI. greater than six months have elapsed for the reason that incidence of the horrific lynching incident in opposition to sadhus at Palghar. There has been no vital improvement.”

The public curiosity litigations (PILs) filed within the matter are in search of a CBI or a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe within the incident that came about in Palghar district on April 16 this yr. 

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