India, Aug. 1 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announced the setting up of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the murder of Mahadev Munde after meeting his widow Dnyaneshwari Munde in Parli. The CM entrusted the investigation to IPS officer Pankaj Kumawat, as demanded by locals, and two other officers who had handled the case previously. He also assured Dnyaneshwari that the accused who she had named would be arrested at the earliest.

Munde, a real estate contractor, was brutally killed by unidentified people who threw his body by the roadside in October 2023. Dnyaneshwari and other family members have alleged the involvement of Walmik Karad, currently arrested under MCOCA in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's murder cas...