Palghar Lynching: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray Says Crime Was Not A Communal One

Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on April 20 said that over 100 people have been arrested in connection with the Palghar lynching case. “Over 100 persons arrested including 5 main accused. There is nothing communal in this whole incident. I have spoken to Amit Shah ji this morning and Yogi Adityanath ji there is nothing communal in the crime,” said Thackeray. On Thursday, April 16 three men were lynched by a mob in Maharashtra’s Palghar district after allegedly suspecting them to be child-kidnappers and organ harvesters. The three were driving to a funeral in Surat when a group of villagers in Gadchinchle, part of Palghar district, stopped their car and attacked them with stones, logs and axes. Those killed have been identified as 70-year-old Mahant Kalpavruksha Giri and 35- year-old Sushilgiri Maharaj, two ascetics (sadhu) belonging to the Juna Akhada and residing in Kandivali. The driver, Nilesh Yelgade, 30, was also lynched to death.