CM Shinde hands out Rs 5 lakh cheque to families of 2020 Palghar lynching seers

Chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday handed over Rs 5 lakh cheque each to the families of the two sadhus and their driver who were lynched to death by a mob in a village in Kasa taluka of Palghar district on April 16,2020. The lynching of the seers Kalpavriksha Giri Maharaj (70), Sushil Giri Maharaj (35) and their driver Nilesh Telgade (30) at Gadchinchale village in Kasa by a mob of over 500 villagers had rocked the nation. They were headed to Surat in Gujarat to attend a funeral and were travelling in a car from Kandivli.