India, Oct. 17 -- Five years after the 2020 Palghar mob lynching, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recently re-registered earlier police cases to conduct a fresh investigation into the mob violence that resulted in the killing of two aged seers and their driver. The CBI acted after the Maharashtra government gave its consent via a notification on May 22 this year, and has registered three separate FIRs in the case.

The lynching happened on April 16, 2020 at Palghar's Gadchinchle village and the three cases were initially registered by Palghar's Kasa police station from April 16-18, 2020. The district police's probes were later handed over to the Maharashtra CID.

The state CID, which submitted three chargesheets in the cases in ...