The murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in December last year has deepened the rift between the Maratha and Vanjari communities, traditionally on opposite sides of the socio-political divide ...

Against the backdrop of that, data shared by the local police revealed that a total of 308 murders were reported in the Beed district over the past five years, of which 295 have been detected.

When the penny dropped, Bade was deeply hurt. Bade hails from Beed district and believes that communal tensions back home are casting a shadow on his life in Pune. “Before this murder case ...