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For days preceding last week’s lynching of the three men, rumours of kidnappers and organ-harvesters had been flying thick on WhatsApp — all false; there have been no incidents of kidnapping or theft of organs.

The Eeco, with victims Mahant Kalpavruksha Giri (70), Sushilgiri Maharaj (35) and driver Naresh Yelgade, was taking State Highway 73 off the Dahanu-Jawhar Road, en route to Surat, likely to duck the Mumbai-Gujarat highway checkposts enforcing the sealing of state borders.

Multiple eyewitness accounts concur that the mob, having seen only the rare vehicle along this road during the days and none after dusk, thought it had stopped criminals.

He told The Indian Express that he tried to calm the people but by then, the Eeco had been upturned.

“Those who did it ran away from home, and those who didn’t have also had to run,” said Sevanti Borsa, mother of accused Rustom Borsa.