Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on April 20 said that over 100 people have been arrested in connection with the Palghar lynching case. “Over 100 persons arrested including 5 main accused. There is nothing communal in this whole incident. I have spoken to Amit Shah ji this morning and Yogi Adityanath ji there is nothing communal in the crime,” said Thackeray. On Thursday, April 16 three men were lynched by a mob in Maharashtra’s Palghar district after allegedly suspecting them to be child-kidnappers and organ harvesters. The three were driving to a funeral in Surat when a group of villagers in Gadchinchle, part of Palghar district, stopped their car and attacked them with stones, logs and axes. Those killed have been identified as 70-year-old Mahant Kalpavruksha Giri and 35- year-old Sushilgiri Maharaj, two ascetics (sadhu) belonging to the Juna Akhada and residing in Kandivali. The driver, Nilesh Yelgade, 30, was also lynched to death.