Uddhav Thackeray blocked CBI probe into Palghar mob lynching on orders from Rahul Gandhi: Shiv Sena(Shinde Group)
Raking up the April 2020 Palghar mob lynching incident, in which two Sadhus and their driver had been killed in the vicinity of Mumbai, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena claimed that on the orders of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, then Maharashtra Main Minister Uddhav Thackeray halted the case’s transfer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
According to the Deccan Herald, Thackeray opposed the case’s transfer to the CBI because of to tension from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
On April 16, 2020, two Nashik-primarily based Sadhus, Kalpavriksha Giri Maharaj (70), Sushil Giri Maharaj (35) – members of the Varanasi-based Shri Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara, India’s greatest get of sadhus – and their driver Nilesh Telgade (30) ended up brutally lynched to death in the Gadchinchale village in Dahanu tehsil of Palghar district, nearly 120 kilometers from downtown Mumbai.
They ended up specific amid rumors that little one lifters were in the place, just as the very first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak strike the state.
The FIR was at first recorded at the Kasa police station in Palghar, but the investigation was later on transferred to the State-CID.
“The murder was dedicated though Thackeray was sleeping, and the (then) Dwelling Minister (Anil Deshmukh) was fast paced collecting funds, main to suspicions that the sadhus were being murdered at the behest of the Maharashtra federal government. At that time, Thackeray experienced offered a tepid reaction and had saved the investigation machinery idle. The government’s reluctance to hand in excess of the Sadhu murder case to the CBI prevented a well timed investigation,” mentioned Shiv Sena secretary and spokesperson Kiran Pawaskar.
According to Pawaskar, right after a few to four months of no meaningful growth, Sadhu leaders dealt with the Supreme Courtroom in June 2020, trying to find justice. “It was because of the Thackeray-led (Maha Vikas Aghadi) government’s inaction that the Akhara leaders demanded the transfer of the circumstance to the CBI. On the other hand, Thackeray’s administration opposed transferring the case to the CBI,” he reported.
Pawaskar mentioned that on June 30, 2022, right after just about two years, Eknath Shinde took in excess of as Main Minister of the state, and a fast resolution was built on this matter.
“Shinde made a decision to transfer the Sadhu murder circumstance to the CBI,” Pawaskar said, adding that the Maha Yuti government has also supplied a Rs 5 lakh economical help to the people of the deceased sadhus.
“There’s evidence suggesting that under force from Gandhi, Thackeray agreed not to transfer the case to the CBI,” he claimed.
