In more support for the suspended Kasa police officers, the sarpanch of Gadchinchale village and an office-bearer of the local zilla parishad have said that the cops saved their lives as the frenzied mob refused to listen to anyone on April 16 in Palghar. Meanwhile, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh tweeted a list of the names of 101 arrested accused, "especially for those trying to make it a communal issue". None in the list are Muslims.

The police officers had asked the chairman of the Zilla Parishad's working committee, Kashinath Choudhary, and Sarpanch Chitra Choudhary, known faces in the area, to help calm the mob that allegedly lynched two priests and their driver on April 16.