From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned for two weeks on the Maharashtra government’s request to respond on the transfer of probe to CBI into the 2020 Palghar lynching case wherein two Sadhus and their driver were killed.
A Bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala adjourned the matter at the request of the Maharashtra government’s counsel who submitted that the state government has consented the CBI probe and the matter be adjourned for two weeks for further instructions from the state government.
A batch of pleas were filed in the top court seeking a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) or CBI into the Palghar lynching as the state police has not reached any conclusion.
On the night of April 16, 2020, the two sadhus and their driver were travelling from Kandivali in Mumbai to attend a funeral in Gujarat’s Surat amid the nationwide lockdown when their vehicle was stopped and they were killed by a job in Gadchichile village in the presence of high posse of the police officers.
The Maharashtra government had earlier informe the Supreme Court that all the guilty police officials were punished or suspended from service for not preventing the mob from gathering in violation of the lockdown norms.
