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Mumbai: The Maharashtra CID on Tuesday (May 12) arrested at least 24 more defendants who escaped in connection with the lynching of three seers in Palghar last month. With this, at least 133 people have been arrested in the case so far.
According to the police, nine minors have also been arrested among the 133.
Previously, SP Palghar was sent on leave while five police officers were suspended and another 35 were transferred for failure to fulfill their duties in the incident.
On May 1, the Maharashtra Police Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested five more people in connection with the lynching of sadhus in Palghar. A day later, police discovered that one of the defendants arrested in the case, and that he was at the Wada police station, was infected with the coronavirus COVID-19. The defendant was admitted for the first time to an isolation room at the Palghar Rural Hospital and then transferred to a prisoner room at JJ Hospital.
Although not confirmed, the accused was believed to have contracted the infection as almost 20-30 defendants were housed in a single cell in the prison.
On April 16, two monks were driving to Surat from Mumbai in a car with a driver to attend a funeral. In the village of Gadchinchle, a crowd of villagers detained them and beat them to death on suspicion that they were thieves, even when some policemen had arrived at the scene. Some of the accused then fled into the dense forest around the town. According to an official, the police used drones to hunt them down.
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