Because the Opposition in Maharashtra demanded that Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) chief Dhananjay Munde, who resigned as a minister on Tuesday, be named an accused within the Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh homicide case, sources within the particular investigation workforce (SIT) that probed the case mentioned it was unlikely that new names can be added to the chargesheet with the proof in hand.
“The chargesheet names eight accused towards whom we now have discovered proof in reference to the homicide of Santosh Deshmukh. Based mostly on the proof thus far, no new names shall be added. Until some new proof crops up, the chargesheet can have no new names,” a supply from the SIT mentioned.
Requested why the chargesheet has been stored open for investigation beneath Part 193 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the official mentioned that it was as a result of one of many accused, Krushna Andhale, was nonetheless on the run. “As soon as he’s arrested, one other chargesheet shall be filed detailing his position within the case,” an official mentioned.
Deshmukh, the sarpanch of Massajog village in Beed district, was murdered on December 9, allegedly after he tried to stop an extortion try. Seven of the eight accused within the case have been arrested.
Munde had been dealing with strain to resign after his shut aide Walmik Karad was arrested in a case associated to the homicide. The chargesheet filed by the CID earlier this week towards eight accused within the Deshmukh homicide case names Karad.
It was the video and pictures of the brutal killing of the sarpanch which have been hooked up to the chargesheet that led to recent outrage towards Munde, leading to his resignation.
On Tuesday, after Munde submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Aaditya Thackeray mentioned that the CID ought to submit a revised chargesheet within the case, naming Munde. The same demand was raised by NCP (SP) chief and Beed MLA Sandeep Kshirsagar.
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