Palghar lynching victims had Rs 6 lakh cash on them

April 20, 2020 11:53

The spot where the trio was lynched by a mob in Palghar, Maharashtra

'Sushil Giri, Chikne Maharaj, and Nilesh Tilghate had Rs 6 lakh cash on them when they were lynched on Thursday, but the money is missing, alleged the family and close associates of the deceased. A mob of 450 people from the tribal community in Palghar district had beaten the trio to death suspecting them to be thieves,' reports Diwakar Sharma in Mid-Day, on the heinous crime in Maharashtra that has shocked one and all.

"It seems that the tribals looted the cash and killed the trio mistaking them to be thieves, as only Rs 300 cash was recovered from the deceased," Diwakar, priest at the Pimpleshwar Mahadev Temple in Kandivli where Sushil Giri was head priest, tells Sharma, here.

In another report in Mid-Day, Diwakar Sharma writes: 'The Palghar police have formed several teams -- at least 40 officers in each -- to conduct a combat operation to catch the absconding accused hiding in the dense forest area.'

He quotes Superintendent of Police, Palghar district, Gaurav Singh as hinting at the use of technology and sniffer dogs to track down the killers.

"If required, we will take the help of drone cameras and the dog squad to track down the accused. They will be arrested soon as we have been working round the clock to surround them in the jungle," Singh tells Sharma, here.

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