Palghar (Maharashtra): Three more personnel of Kasa police station in Palghar district of Maharashtra were suspended on Wednesday in connection with the April 16 lynching of two sadhus and their driver by a mob, an official said.
Palghar district superintendent of police Gaurav Singh has suspended an assistant sub-inspector and two constables after conducting a departmental inquiry against them, he said.
Earlier, an assistant inspector and sub-inspector of Kasa police station, in whose limits the lynching incident took place, were suspended for alleged dereliction of duty.
On Tuesday, thirty-five personnel of the police station were transferred.
The three victims, from Kandivali in Mumbai, were traveling in a car to attend a funeral in Surat in Gujarat amid the lockdown when they were attacked and killed by a mob in Gadchinchile village in the presence of a police team.
Over 100 people have been arrested so far while nine juveniles detained.
(PTI REPORT)
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