
Got offer to conduct ‘encounter’ of sarpanch murder case accused Karad: suspended cop
The Hindu
Suspended cop claims offer to carry out "encounter" of murder case accused, dismissed by senior police official as baseless.
A suspended police sub-inspector from Beed on Monday (April 14, 2025) claimed some persons had offered him to carry out an “encounter” of Walmik Karad, accused in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case.
Ranjeet Kasle, the suspended cop, also said he had mentioned the names of the persons who made the offer in a local police station diary.
A senior police official from Beed, however, dismissed Kasle’s claims as baseless and said he should submit a proof of his statements.
Ranjeet Kasle was suspended earlier when he was a sub-inspector in the local cyber crime department.
Deshmukh, the sarpanch of Massajog village in Maharashtra’s Beed district, was abducted and tortured to death on December 9 last year allegedly for attempting to stop an extortion bid targeting an energy company.
Karad is among the eight persons arrested so far and booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
The state Crime Investigation Department (CID) last month filed a more than 1,200 pages chargesheet at a court in Beed in Deshmukh's murder and two related cases.

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