Now, Shinde-Fadnavis regime shifts Palghar lynching to CBI

Almost two-and-a-half years after three persons, including two sadhus, were lynched by a mob in Palghar district near here, the state home department has handed over the investigation of the case to the CBI. The case was being investigated by the state CID earlier.

Home minister Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP, which is now in power with the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, confirmed the development.

The incident occurred in Gadchinchle village on the night of April 16, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic when two sadhus were heading towards Surat from the city in a car with a driver to attend a funeral. A mob of villagers stopped them and beat them to death on suspicion that they were child-lifters, even as a few police personnel had reached the spot.