The Maharashtra government informs the Supreme Court that it has decided to hand over to the CBI the probe into the Palghar case where two sadhus were lynched to death.
Three persons from Kandivali in Mumbai were travelling in a car to attend a funeral in Surat in Gujarat amid the Covid-19-induced nationwide lockdown when their vehicle was stopped and they were attacked and killed allegedly by a mob in Gadchinchale village on the night of April 16, 2020, in the presence of the police.
The victims were identified as Chikne Maharaj Kalpavrukshagiri, 70, Sushil Giri Maharaj, 35, and Nilesh Telgade, 30, who was driving the vehicle.
The state government recently approached the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the lynching.