Palghar (Maha), May 26 (PTI) Two more persons were arrested in the Palghar lynching case, the police said on Tuesday, a police official said.

It took the number of arrested in the case, which shook the country due its brutality and also became a political issue, to 150, including ten juveniles,

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The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Maharashtra police is probing the lynching of three men, including two monks, at Gadchinchle village in Palghar district on April 16.

A mob of local villagers allegedly killed them on suspicion that they were thieves.

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The two persons arrested on Monday were presented before the judicial magistrate, who remanded them in judicial custody till May 31, the official said.

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