Maharashtra legislative council LoP Ambadas Danve on Thursday said the trial in the case of Massajog village sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's murder should be conducted outside Beed district, reported news agency PTI.

Danve said that the public prosecutor recused Walmik Karad from the case. Karad, a close associate of NCP minister Dhananjay Munde, was produced before a court in Beed after surrendering in an extortion case linked to the sarpanch's murder.