Maharashtra CID files third charge sheet in Palghar lynching case
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is probing the Palghar mob lynching incident, has filed a 3rd cost sheet within the case in a neighborhood court docket, officers stated on Saturday (August 8, 2020).
In a associated growth, the CID additionally filed a cost sheet in opposition to two minor accused within the case in a juvenile court docket at Bhiwandi in Thane district on Friday, they stated.
In July, the CID had filed two cost sheets, one operating into 4,955 pages and one other of 5,921 pages, in a court docket in Dahanu taluka in Palghar district.
As many as 154 folks have been arrested and 11 juveniles detained in reference to the incident, police have stated.
The three FIRs which were filed are associated to homicide, armed rioting and different expenses have been registered in reference to the incident, through which two seers and their driver have been lynched by a mob at Gadchinchale village in Palghar on April 16 after they have been travelling in a automobile to Surat (Gujarat) to attend a funeral amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
“The CID Crime has now filed a charge sheet in the third FIR, which was registered at Kasa Police Station in Palghar. The case relates to a police officer opening fire,” an official stated on Saturday.
The cost sheet was submitted in a Palghar court docket, he stated.
Another official stated, “The state police is preparing a report about the inquiry against the police personnel and action taken against them, as the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Maharashtra government to bring on record those details too.”
The apex court docket on Thursday had requested the state authorities to apprise it of the inquiry and motion taken in opposition to the errant police personnel within the lynching case. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy had additionally requested the state authorities to additionally file the cost sheet earlier than it, saying it wish to look at them.
Meanwhile, a high official of the state CID stated that the cost sheet in opposition to two minor accused was filed on the Bhiwandi juvenile court docket on Friday.
“The two minors were found to be actively involved in the attack on two seers and also indulged in other violent acts. Their involvement in the crime was established based on the evidence collected by the police,” he stated.
According to a different official, 9 different juvenile accused haven’t been named in that cost sheet.
The brutal mob assault befell amid rumours that child-lifters have been roaming within the space through the lockdown.
The case was later handed over to the CID for a probe.
The victims have been recognized by the police as Chikne Maharaj Kalpavrukshagiri (70), Sushil Giri Maharaj (35) and their driver Nilesh Telgade (30).
The accused within the case have been charged with homicide, armed rioting and utilizing legal power to forestall a public servant from doing his responsibility, amongst different offences.
Besides sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the accused have been charged below related provisions of the Disaster Management Act, the Epidemic Diseases Act (since lockdown was in power through the incident), the Maharashtra Police Act and the Maharashtra Damage to Public Property (Prevention) Act, the discharge stated.
After the incident induced an uproar, the state authorities suspended Kasa police station in-charge Anandrao Kale, below whose jurisdiction the crime befell, and another policemen, together with sub-inspectors.
Besides, over 35 police constables and personnel of different ranks have been transferred within the wake of the mob assault.
The authorities had additionally despatched the then Palghar district police chief, Gaurav Singh, on compelled depart.
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