<span style="color: #222222;">In Maharashtra, eighteen more people have been arrested by Maharashtra Police's Crime Investigation Department in the Palghar lynching case. The CID is probing the incident in which three persons, including two seers, were lynched by a mob of villagers in Palghar district last month.<br />''<br />''With the latest arrests, the number of those held in connection with the case has gone up to 134. These include 24 arrested so far by the CID after it was handed over the case. Earlier, 110 people, including nine juveniles, were taken into custody by Palghar Police in this case.<br />''<br />''The incident took place at Gadchinchle village on 16th of April  when two seers were heading towards Surat from Mumbai in a car with a driver to attend a funeral. A mob of villagers stopped them and beat them to death on suspicion that they were child-lifters, even as a few police personnel had reached the spot. Some of the accused later fled into the dense forest.</span><br />