<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today refused  to stay the ongoing investigation in the Palghar mob lynching case and sought a status report from the Maharashtra Government.<br />''<br />''The Bench comprising of Justices Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna was hearing a petition seeking Court-monitored investigation or transfer of the case to CBI, alleging that the police was complicit in the lynching of the two saints.  <br />''<br />''Refusing to stay the ongoing investigation, the court asked petitioner to serve the copy of the same to the Maharashtra government and listed the matter after four weeks.  <br />''<br />''The petitioner also raised questions on how the police allowed such a crowd to assemble in the first place, since it is in absolute violation of lockdown rule.<br />''<br />''On April 16, two sadhus were brutally killed by an angry mob of villagers in Palghar, Maharashtra.<br />''<br />''The sadhus were on their way to Gujarat to attend a funeral.</span><br />