Mumbai, May 24 -- In a belated fallout of the much-discussed Palghar lynching incident in which three persons, including two Sadhus, were beaten to death, the Maharashtra Government on Saturday shunted out Palghar's Deputy Superintendent of Police Gaurav Singh and replaced him with Dattatreya T Shinde in his place.
More than a month after the incident sparked a major political controversy in the country, the Shiv Sena-led MVA Government decided to transfer Palgharf's DSP Singh - who had earlier on May 7 been sent on "compulsory leave" - out of his post. He has not been given any fresh posting so far.
Shinde, who has succeeded Singh as Palghar's new DSP, was earlier the Managing Director of the MahaVitaran, one of the state electricity und...