The Sangli Police has solved the mystery behind the deaths of nine members of the Vanmore family with the arrest of a tantrik and his driver. The family was earlier thought to have killed themselves in a suicide pact, A car seen in a CCTV camera footage close to the residence of the victims led the police to change their line of investigation. The accused have been identified as Abbas Mohammad Ali Bagwan, 48, who killed his wife in 2012, and his driver Dheeraj Chandrakant Survase, 30. On June 20, the police had recovered nine bodies of the Vanmore family in two different houses in Mhaisal village. A suicide note was found and subsequently, 13 were arrested.

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