The court is due to hear the case today.
Bombay (Maharashtra):
The government of Maharashtra has filed a situation report with the Supreme Court indicating that 15 police officers were sanctioned with pay cuts and two were sent into compulsory retirement, in connection with the incident of mob lynching. Palghar.
“A ministerial investigation has been ordered against the police personnel, who were found on their face negligent and negligent in the performance of their duties of incident management and prevention of the commission of a crime at the time and at the surrounding the incident, ”the situation report reads. .
He said the departmental investigation against the police personnel was completed, adding that after the completion of the departmental investigation against the delinquent police personnel, the special inspector general of police, Konkan Range, issued statements. justification notice to police personnel.
After police personnel responded to the show cause notices, Special Inspector General of Police Konkan Range issued the final order on August 21 imposing punishment on the delinquent police personnel.
In accordance with the above, Anandrao Shivaji Kale, Deputy Inspector of Police, ordered the dismissal, Ravindra Dinkar Salunkhe, Deputy Deputy Inspector of Police, and Naresh Nageen Dondi, Driver, Chief of Police, were sentenced to the compulsory retirement from government service. Fifteen police officers were sentenced to a pay cut as a punishment, he added.
Badrinarayan Deshmukh, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Law and Order), Mumbai, Maharashtra, filed the status report of the case, according to the order of the higher court, and stated that the Pune Criminal Investigation Department , after conducting a thorough investigation, filed two indictment sheets against 252 defendants on July 15 in the Palgarh District Court and the Thane District Juvenile Court.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had asked the Maharashtra government to record the charge sheet and details of the investigation against police officials in connection with the Palghar mob lynching incident.
A bench led by Judge Ashok Bhushan heard several petitions calling for a Central Investigation Bureau (CBI) investigation and FIR registration against police officers for their alleged failure to prevent crowds from gathering in violation of standards of locking.
The bench had asked the Maharashtra government to record details of the investigation against police personnel, action had been taken against them in this case and to record the charges laid in the Palghar incident.
The court is due to hear the case today.
Public interest litigation (PIL) in this matter calls for a CBI investigation or a court-supervised Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigation into the incident that occurred in Palghar district on 16 April of this year.
On the night of April 16, the two sadhus and their driver were traveling from Kandivali to Mumbai to attend a funeral in Surah in Gujarat amid the national lockdown when their vehicle was stopped and they were attacked and killed by a crowd in the village of Gadchinchile. in the presence of police officers.
