On the cold night of April 16, 2020, two Hindu saints Kalpavriksha Giri Maharaj 70 years and Sushil Giri Maharaj 35 years along with their driver Nilesh Telagadhe 30 years were lynched by a mob in Palghar district, near Nasik, Maharashtra, India. The visuals of the horrible incident will curdle your blood and haunt you for days. A helpless elderly man in saffron robes, bald head covered with blood, is seen pleading to the blood thirst mob who are hitting him with iron rods, sticks and weapons mercilessly and repeatedly while the old man is crying for help. The more dastardly act in the video is from the policemen’s end, who wears a silent mask while watching them get killed. The video also shows a policeman bringing the injured man out of the police station, the weak old man pleading to be protected while the policeman pushes him to the mob, the mob jumps on him like a pack of hungry wolves, killing him ruthlessly. All 3 of them were killed in front of the very people who take oath to protect us and provide us justice. The incident would make you feel aggrieved on the jurisdiction’s part and hang your head in shame.

CBI has to conduct a thorough investigation as to why there was such a lax in security by the policemen.