A petition filed by the deceased Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's brother in the Bombay High Court, seeking a direction to the Maharashtra government to remove NCP minister Dhananjay Munde from the cabinet, has been withdrawn, PTI reported.

The petitioner, Dhananjay Deshmukh, had alleged that Minister Munde was associated with the head of the criminal syndicate in Maharashtra's Beed district who reportedly played a major role in the murder of the Massajog village sarpanch.