India, Jan. 16 -- Three weeks after the announcement of a judicial probe into the killing of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, and the alleged custodial death of a protestor in the Constitution desecration case, the state government has announced committees under retired judges for both cases. The Beed sarpanch case will be investigated by Bombay High Court retired justice ML Tahiliani, while the Parbhani death will be probed by retired high court justice VL Achaliya.

The single-member committee will probe whether any person or any organisation was responsible for the killing of the sarpanch, whether the police and district administration had deployed adequate forces, whether the steps taken by the police were adequate, and whether any pol...