Palghar

SC asked the Maharashtra govt to file a status report in connection with the brutal lynching of two Hindu sadhus and their driver in Palghar on April 16.

The CID filed two charge-sheets of around 11,000 pages, naming over 250-plus accused in the mob lynching case to claim that lynchings of Hindu Sadhus were fuelled by rumours of a gang of thieves and was not a pre-planned attack.

The police on Tuesday revealed that eleven of the accused in the horrifying lynching of Hindu sadhus in Palghar have been tested positive for coronavirus.

Dhangada was one among many people questioned by the police in their alleged role in the Palghar mob lynching case.

Even as celebrities voice their solidarity and put up social media campaign on #BlackLivesMatter, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has questioned their silence on the Palghar Sadhu lynching.

The police officials also said that three assailants attacked the temple's head priest Sankaranand Saraswati and his assistant. The attackers then ran away with valuables worth Rs 6,800.

The bodies of the Sadhus were found in their ashram in Maharashtra's Nanded late on Saturday night

Maharashtra Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested at least 24 more accused who were reportedly absconding after the Palghar Lynching incident

Two of the officers who interrogated Goswami were asymptomatic and later one of them have tested for coronavirus.

Every day, new revelations are being made in the Palghar mob lynching case. Still, there are many questions which remain unanswered