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One of the defendants in the Palghar lynching case, who was locked up at the Wada police station, tested positive for coronavirus.
The defendant was first admitted to an isolation ward at Palghar Rural Hospital and is being transferred to a prisoner room at JJ Hospital.
He is believed to have contracted the infection in a confinement where about 20 other defendants were reported to have been housed with him in a single cell.
The defendant is one of more than 100 suspects who have been arrested in the case, including nine minors.
This comes after the Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said it had arrested five more defendants, including two older citizens in the case, on Thursday night.
So far, a total of 115 people, including 9 minors, who have been sent to the children’s pre-trial detention house in Bhiwandi, have been caught in the case. Irrfan Shaikh, deputy superintendent of police, CID, said the defendants were brought before the Dahanu court on Friday and held in CID custody until May 13.
Two sadhus, Kalpavriksha Giri Maharaj, 70, and Sushil Giri Maharaj, of Juna Akhara, 35, and driver 30, Nilesh Telgade, were traveling in a car from Kandivli to Surat to attend an old man’s funeral. Sadhu, when he was near the town of Gaddchinchale, a huge crowd of 500 lynched them. The trio were attacked on suspicion of being child lifters.
The Maharashtra Crime Investigation Department (CID) is investigating the case by order of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
