Eight arrested for beating two to death

The Pune rural police arrested eight people for beating two men to death after one of the two eloped with the daughter of one of the assailants and the other helped him

The Pune rural police arrested eight people for beating two men to death after one of the two eloped with the daughter of one of the assailants and the other helped him. The incident happened in Karanjvihir area of Khed taluka in Pune on

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The two dead were identified as Balu Sitaram Gawade (30) and Rahul Dattatray Gawade (20) both residents of Askhed Khurd in Khed area of Pune district.

Balu Gawade’s wife Chandrakara alias Mukta Balu Gawade (26), and the father of the woman he eloped with, Balu Margaj (45), both are among six people arrested in the case.

The others arrested were identified as Lalita Margaj (35), Prasad Margaj (20) Anil Sambhaji Kadale (21), Raju Sahebrao Gawade (43), Kiran Balu Mongal (20), and Ananda Sitaram Jadhav (32). They will all be produced in court on Sunday.

Balu Gawade, a member of Thakar community (tribal), had eloped with the 21-year-old daughter of the owner of the brick kiln in which he worked for past four years, according to the police. The girl, a member of the Maratha community, is a Class 10 dropout and unemployed while Balu Gawade was working at the kiln and had a wife and two children.

A case under Section 302 (murder), 34 (common intention) and others of Indian Penal Code was registered at Chakan police station.