Ranjit Kasle, a suspended police sub-inspector from Beed, has been dismissed from service after claiming that he had been offered a contract to eliminate Walmik Karad, the key accused in the case of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's murder. The dismissal was carried out by the Inspector General of Police of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Range, in accordance with Article 311(2)(b) of the Constitution of India, which grants the competent authority the power to take such action.

As per PTI, the Beed police had earlier sent a proposal to higher authorities, recommending Kasle's dismissal following his controversial claims. Kasle had publicly alleged that former Maharashtra cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde and his associate Walmik Karad had attempted to bribe him to execute an encounter killing of Karad. These claims were reiterated by Kasle when he spoke to reporters at Pune airport on Thursday evening.