The Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday filed a charge sheet in the murder case of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh and two related cases. Deshmukh was abducted, tortured, and murdered allegedly for attempting to stop an extortion bid targeting an energy company in Beed. While seven individuals have been arrested for the crime, the primary accused, Krushna Andhale, remains at large.

“The CID filed a chargesheet in the Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case and two related cases. The charge sheet runs into more than 1,200 pages,” a public prosecutor said. Three separate cases—the murder of a sarpanch, a bid to extort money from the Avaada company, and an assault on a security guard of the firm—were registered at the Kej police station in Beed.