Palghar lynching case: 208 new accused named, 50 arrested

The state Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday named 208 new accused within the April 16 Palghar lynching case and arrested 50 individuals.

The 50 arrested might be produced earlier than the Dahanu courtroom on Thursday, confirmed their lawyer Amrut Adhikari.

With this growth, the whole arrested within the case stand at 376 out of which 11 are minors. However, 28 accused and 9 minors have been launched on bail because the CID in its chargesheet didn’t identify their involvement within the lynching and therefore sought default bail.

Meanwhile, the bail listening to of the 62 accused within the case might be heard by Special Sessions Judge PP Jadhav at Thane on Thursday, mentioned Adhikari.

The killing of the 2 saffron-robed males and their driver in April this 12 months had sparked off nationwide outrage after video clips confirmed policemen heading to security contained in the police station and leaving the three males on the mercy of tons of of people that suspected the three have been thieves.

Kalpvrush Giri, 70, Sushil Giri, 35, and driver Nilesh Telgade, 30, have been dragged out of their car and thrashed by the mob in Gadhchinchale village, about 110 km from Palghar. The seers belonged to Varanasi-based Juna Akhara and have been on their option to attend the final rites of their guru Mahant Shri Ram Giri in Surat.

Five months after Gaurav Singh, former superintendent of police (SP), Palghar, was despatched on obligatory depart by state house minister Anil Deshmukh following the lynching incident, he has now been posted as a superintendent of the Maharashtra Police Academy, Nashik, by the state house ministry.

The state authorities in a reply to the Supreme Court to a petition in search of handing over the case to a central company, had final Wednesday, talked about that no dereliction of obligation was discovered from Singh’s aspect and thus was given a clear chit.