The Maharashtra authorities Wednesday fashioned a Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to probe the homicide of a sarpanch in Beed district that has triggered political storm within the state.
The house division has issued a Authorities Decision (GR) forming the ten-member SIT, which can be headed by the Deputy Inspector Common of the Crime Investigation Division (CID), Maharashtra, Basavraj Teli.
The group will embody Dy SP of CID Anil Gujar and others from the native crime department in Beed.
The SIT was fashioned a day after former Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) corporator and an aide of Minister Dhananjay Munde, Walmik Karad, who has been within the eye of a storm for the reason that sarpanch homicide, surrendered on the CID headquarters in Pune.
Santosh Deshmukh (45), a sarpanch of Massajog in Kaiz tehsil, was kidnapped and murdered on December 9 and his household had alleged Karad’s involvement within the homicide. Two days after the homicide, Karad was named in an FIR for allegedly making an attempt to extort Rs 2 crore from a windmill firm in Beed. Deshmukh’s household claimed that he was killed as a result of he had opposed extortion makes an attempt by native strongmen with hyperlinks to the NCP.
The homicide had rocked the state Meeting, with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders staging protests and demanding his arrest. Karad was produced within the Beed court docket within the extortion case on Tuesday night time and has been remanded to police custody until January 13.
In the meantime, on Wednesday, a number of villagers entered a lake in Massajog and stood waist-deep within the water as a part of the “jal samadhi” agitation, demanding arrest of the three absconding accused within the homicide case.
“Santosh Deshmukh ought to get justice. Even after 23 days (of homicide), three accused within the case are nonetheless absconding. What’s the police doing? The accused have to be arrested instantly and hanged to dying,” a villager mentioned.
The agitation was withdrawn after Beed Superintendent of Police Navneet Kanwat met the protesters and sought 10 days to nab the absconding accused within the homicide case.
After Deshmukh’s homicide, the Kej police had registered the case in opposition to seven individuals primarily based on the criticism of Shivraj Deshmukh, a relative of the deceased sarpanch.
Out of the seven accused, the police have up to now arrested Pratik Ghule, Jayram Chate and Mahesh Kedar, whereas three others — Sudarshan Ghule, Sudhir Sangle and Krushna Andhale — absconding
In addition to Karad, one Vishnu Chate has additionally been arrested within the extortion case.
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