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MUMBAI: The Thane special court on Saturday granted bail to 89 people who are accused in the April 2020 Palghar lynching case, in which two seers and their driver were killed by a mob in a village in Kasa, Palghar district.
Arguments on their bail applications were heard by district Judge S B Bahalkar on January 6. They were released on a bail of Rs 15,000 each and surety. Special public prosecutor Satish Maneshinde had then told the court that the accused seeking bail were present at the crime scene on April 16, 2020, but had played no active role in the crime.
The Kasa police had filed a case of murder and other sections against a mob of over 500 unidentified people from the tribal villages in Kasa. Most of those arrested were from the Gadchinchale village in Kasa, where the lynching had taken place. Of the 246 accused, 115 are already out on bail. There are 16 minors who were arrested in the case, of which nine are out on bail. Advocate for the accused Amrut Adhikari had maintained that those seeking bail were arrested based on their cellphone locations at the time of the crime.