Sadhus Killed In Palghar

A special court in Thane on Thursday granted bail to 53 persons arrested in the Palghar mob lynching case, in which two sadhus and their driver were killed at a village in Maharashtra's Palghar district.

The Shiv Sena today claimed double standards by the media in its response to fatal attacks on sadhus, alleging that such deaths were portrayed as "adharma (injustice)" when they happen in Maharashtra but are brushed of as "incidents" elsewhere

A sessions court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of 25 persons arrested in connection with the Palghar case in which two monks and their driver were beaten to death by a mob in April.

The Supreme Court has sent notice to the Maharashtra government, the CBI and the centre after the families of two sadhus killed by a mob in the state's Palghar town in April demanded a probe by the central agency. The top court told them to reply within two weeks.

In the political sparring over the murder of Sadhus in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has lashed out at Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in tweets in which he sneered: "You handle Maharashtra, don't bother about UP".

In the past one month, in quick succession, India witnessed two heinous incidents of crime and at the receiving end in both cases were Hindu priests. Yesterday, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, reported the murder of two sadhus at a temple. This incident drew parallels to the horrific lynching of three people, two of them priests, at Palghar in Maharash...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday slammed the Palghar lynching in which two sadhus were killed, saying there is no place for violence in society.

None of the 101 people arrested so far for the mob attack on three men in Maharashtra's Palghar district last week are Muslims, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said today

Condemning the lynching of two sadhus (sages) in neighbouring Palghar district, the Shiv Sena today said the incident was an attempt to malign Maharashtra's image and it was "inhuman" to give it a communal colour.

Barely 125 kilometres from Mumbai, a small village in Maharashtra's Palghar district has reported a horrific case of mob killing; three people were killed on Thursday night after rumours they were kidnapping children to harvest organs, including kidneys

A special court in Thane on Thursday granted bail to 53 persons arrested in the Palghar mob lynching case, in which two sadhus and their driver were killed at a village in Maharashtra's Palghar district.

The Shiv Sena today claimed double standards by the media in its response to fatal attacks on sadhus, alleging that such deaths were portrayed as "adharma (injustice)" when they happen in Maharashtra but are brushed of as "incidents" elsewhere

A sessions court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of 25 persons arrested in connection with the Palghar case in which two monks and their driver were beaten to death by a mob in April.

The Supreme Court has sent notice to the Maharashtra government, the CBI and the centre after the families of two sadhus killed by a mob in the state's Palghar town in April demanded a probe by the central agency. The top court told them to reply within two weeks.

In the political sparring over the murder of Sadhus in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has lashed out at Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in tweets in which he sneered: "You handle Maharashtra, don't bother about UP".

In the past one month, in quick succession, India witnessed two heinous incidents of crime and at the receiving end in both cases were Hindu priests. Yesterday, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, reported the murder of two sadhus at a temple. This incident drew parallels to the horrific lynching of three people, two of them priests, at Palghar in Maharash...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday slammed the Palghar lynching in which two sadhus were killed, saying there is no place for violence in society.

None of the 101 people arrested so far for the mob attack on three men in Maharashtra's Palghar district last week are Muslims, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said today

Condemning the lynching of two sadhus (sages) in neighbouring Palghar district, the Shiv Sena today said the incident was an attempt to malign Maharashtra's image and it was "inhuman" to give it a communal colour.

Barely 125 kilometres from Mumbai, a small village in Maharashtra's Palghar district has reported a horrific case of mob killing; three people were killed on Thursday night after rumours they were kidnapping children to harvest organs, including kidneys