Asked to home quarantine after returning from Gujarat, truck driver and 7 others ‘beat two men to death’ in Latur

Police identified the main accused as Vidyaman Baramde. Seven others, who are his relatives, were also arrested. Police said Baramde had returned to the village from Gujarat and the Patil family had asked him to stay in home quarantine.

On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, Baramde and his relatives attacked the Patil family, and in the fight that followed, Shahaji and Vaibhav were killed while Shatrughan was injured, police said.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Dr Nilesh Deshmukh said following a complaint lodged by the Patil family and a subsequent probe, police arrested all eight suspects, including Baramde.

Deshmukh added that there were two reasons behind the fight, a financial dispute and the an issue over the Patil family asking Baramde to stay in home quarantine.

Woman, her two sons ‘murdered’

In another incident at Shukrawar Peth in Beed district, a 31-year-old woman and her two sons, aged 10 and seven, were allegedly murdered following a family dispute. The deceased were identified as Sangeeta Kokane and her two sons, Sandesh and Mayur. Police detained her husband on Sunday afternoon.