A 35-year-old advocate, Digvijay Trivedi, who was heading with a group of lawyers to appear for the victims in the Palghar mob-lynching case at a Dahanu court, died in a road crash on Thursday near Mendhwan pass at Kasa.

Trivedi's father, Omprakash, has raised suspicion about the fatal accident, but the in-charge of Kasa police station, Siddhawa Jaybhay, has ruled out foul play saying, "'there are skid marks on the road before the spot where his car crashed.'