Mumbai, Oct. Oct 21 : In a major development, the state CID on Wednesday named 208 new accused and arrested 50 of them in connection with the sensational April 16 mob-lynching of two sadhus and their driver, officials said here.
“This has taken the total number of accused in the case to so far to 366 including 11 juveniles, while the 50 others arrested today shall be produced before the Dahanu Court on Thursday,a their lawyer Amrut Adhikari told IANS.
Simultaneously, the bail pleas of 62 accused shall be heard on Thursday by Special Sessions Judge P. P. Jadhav at Thane Sessions Court, Adhikari added.
Incidentally, of the 366 accused so far, 28 adults and 9 juveniles were released on a default bail as the CID chargesheet did not specify their exact involvement in the crime owing to lack of evidence, said an official.
Late night of April 16, two seers of the Juna Akhada – Kalpavrikshagiri Maharaj, 70, his assistant Sushilgiri Maharaj, 35, and their driver Nilesh Telgade, 30 – were waylaid near the Gandhchinchale village by a 1,000-strong mob of villagers, at the height of the lockdown.
Mistaking them to be kidnappers, the villagers pounced on them and brutally assaulted them with sticks, rods and stones, resulting in their death, even as a small posse of policemen looked on.
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