MUMBAI, Aug. 1 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announced the setting up of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the murder of Beed based real-estate contractor 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 would soon be arrested. Munde was brutally killed by unidentified people who threw his body by the roadside in October 2023. Dnyaneshwari and other family members alleged the involvement of Walmik Karad, currently arrested under MCOCA in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's murder. Karad is a close aide of former minister and NCP leader Dhananjay Munde, and Dnyaneshwari claimed that Walmik had planned the murder while sitting in Dhananjay's bungalow in Parli. The aggrieved widow submitted post-mortem photos, CDR details of 150 calls they had received from 17 numbers, and names of the accused to Fadnavis. "Back when the case was being investigated, they were about to be arrested but political intervention stopped the police in their tracks," said Beed's BJP MLA Suresh Dhas. "The two investigating officers were immediately transferred." The two are now part of the SIT headed by Pankaj Kumawat, an additional SP in Amravati. After the meeting Dnyaneshwari said "The CM was moved after seeing the photographs and hearing my story," she said. "Of the 17 numbers from which we received calls, nine people were spotted at the crime scene. The CDRs of Walmik Karad and his political patron also need to be checked."...