India, March 5 -- As Beed village sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh was being tortured and killed in December last year, his alleged assailants recorded 15 videos, clicked eight photos, and even made two video calls.

These visuals, now part of the charge sheet submitted by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) to a Beed court last week, proved to be the final blow for Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Dhananjay Munde, who finally resigned as the state's food and civil supplies minister on Tuesday.

Hindustan Times has reviewed pages of the charge sheet containing the video evidence. The shocking images and footage triggered widespread outrage across Maharashtra, with Beed district observing a bandh on Tuesday.

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