A sadhu’s body was found at his ashram in Nanded’s Umri late last night, the police said.
“The deceased Sadhu and the murder accused are of the same community. There is no communal angle in the murder case,” said Vijaykumar Magar, Superintendent of Police of Nanded.
The accused has been arrested in Telangana. There is criminal record against him; he was a co-accused in a murder case filed 10 years back and he has also been booked earlier in a molestation case, as per Vijaykumar Magar, SP Nanded, Maharashtra.
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Last month, three people, including two sadhus, who were travelling from Kandivali in Mumbai to Gujarat via interior roads of Palghar, were beaten to death on April 17 by Gadchinchle villagers, suspecting them of being thieves.
The three men were taken to the hospital where they were declared brought dead.