Palghar, Jan 10 (PTI) The sarpanch of a village in Maharashtra’s Palghar district was allegedly attacked with sticks by a group of persons on Friday for granting a no objection certificate (NOC) to a ...

Residents of Massajog village in Maharashtra’s Beed district, where sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh was brutally murdered, announced on Friday (January 10, 2025) that they would finalise the next ...

Massajog sarpanch Deshmukh was abducted, tortured and murdered on December 9 for trying to stop an extortion bid on an energy firm helming a windmill project in the region.

Mumbai: The murder of a sarpanch in Beed district has not only put the Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government in a tight spot but has also led to a rumbling within the ruling alliance.

The murder case has acquired a caste conflict angle as Deshmukh was a Maratha, while most of the accused are Vanjari, a dominant community in the Beed region.

Anti-corruption activist Anjali Damania on Sunday said the ongoing investigation into the murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh was "hogwash" and asserted police from outside that district must ...

The police arrested two absconding suspects as well as a third person accused of helping, in the Beed sarpanch murder case Police arrested three persons, including two absconding accused involved ...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jan 4 (PTI) An all-party march demanding a deeper probe into the Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case was organised in Parbhani city of Maharashtra on Saturday. The ...

Deshmukh (45), a three-time Sarpanch, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered on 9 December. Earlier, four accused were arrested by the Beed police - Vishnu Chate, Jairam Chate, Mahesh Kedar and ...

Mumbai: The murder of a sarpanch in Beed over the alleged extortion case continues to stir Maharashtra politics with the NCP minister Dhananjay Munde denying involvement in the crime and refusing ...

Avinash Bargal, who was Beed SP when Massajog village sarpanch Deshmukh was abducted and tortured to death in the district on December 9, was transferred after the murder created statewide outrage.

Mumbai: The state government on Wednesday announced a 10- member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by IPS officer Basavraj Teli to probe the murder of Massajog sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh.