02-28-2007, 10:15 PM
I realize that this is an unpleasant thread to pull up. But, I just wanted to ensure that pertinent information was not missed.
Here is the link: Khairlanji: How the Demon Played Out the Dance of Death.
Here are the relevant extracts from the above link:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The CBI had filed a charge sheet against the 11 accused in the case Wednesday. They are Gopal Binjewar, Sakru Mahagu Binjewar, Shatrughna, Mahipal, Shishupal, Dharampal, Vishwanath and Ramu Dhande, Jagdish and Prabhakar Mandlekar and Purushottam Titarmare.
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It all began Sept 3 when Siddharth Gajbhiye, a family friend of the Bhotmanges, slapped one Sakru Mahagu Binjewar inside Bhaiyyalal's house. <b>Sakru, whose wife worked as a labourer on Gajbhiye's farm, had demanded her wages from him.</b> During the wordy duel that ensued, <b>Gajbhiye, a wealthy and influential police patil of the adjoining village, slapped Sakru</b>.
Sakru and his friends thrashed Gajbhiye the same evening in front of Bhaiyyalal's wife Surekha and daughter Priyanka.
In their statement to police along with Gajbhiye's complaint about the beating, <b>the two women 'implicated' 12 people against whom they allegedly had an axe to grind when actually only four people had assaulted Gajbhiye</b>.
On being released on bail Sep 29, the âwrongedâ friends of Sakru, joined by some others in the village, marched straight to Bhotmanges' house and settled the scores.
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So, Gopal and Sakru Mahagu Binjewar were probably the principal killers. According to the Maharashtra Online Land Records System, the Binjewars own no land in the village. Perhaps, they are landless laborers who work for others in and outside Khairlanji (like Siddharth Gajbhiye, who is a relative of the victims). If you want to check the land holdings in the village, you need to click on Query, and choose District: Bhandara, Taluk: Mohadi and Village: Khairlanji. Many of the people in the village own a couple of acres here, and a couple of acres there. Prima facie, there don't appear to be specimens of the "arrogant landlord" variety here.
Also, how much caste consciousness is there in the village, when the killer's wife works for a relative of the victims?
Here is the link: Khairlanji: How the Demon Played Out the Dance of Death.
Here are the relevant extracts from the above link:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The CBI had filed a charge sheet against the 11 accused in the case Wednesday. They are Gopal Binjewar, Sakru Mahagu Binjewar, Shatrughna, Mahipal, Shishupal, Dharampal, Vishwanath and Ramu Dhande, Jagdish and Prabhakar Mandlekar and Purushottam Titarmare.
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.
.
.
It all began Sept 3 when Siddharth Gajbhiye, a family friend of the Bhotmanges, slapped one Sakru Mahagu Binjewar inside Bhaiyyalal's house. <b>Sakru, whose wife worked as a labourer on Gajbhiye's farm, had demanded her wages from him.</b> During the wordy duel that ensued, <b>Gajbhiye, a wealthy and influential police patil of the adjoining village, slapped Sakru</b>.
Sakru and his friends thrashed Gajbhiye the same evening in front of Bhaiyyalal's wife Surekha and daughter Priyanka.
In their statement to police along with Gajbhiye's complaint about the beating, <b>the two women 'implicated' 12 people against whom they allegedly had an axe to grind when actually only four people had assaulted Gajbhiye</b>.
On being released on bail Sep 29, the âwrongedâ friends of Sakru, joined by some others in the village, marched straight to Bhotmanges' house and settled the scores.
.
.
.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, Gopal and Sakru Mahagu Binjewar were probably the principal killers. According to the Maharashtra Online Land Records System, the Binjewars own no land in the village. Perhaps, they are landless laborers who work for others in and outside Khairlanji (like Siddharth Gajbhiye, who is a relative of the victims). If you want to check the land holdings in the village, you need to click on Query, and choose District: Bhandara, Taluk: Mohadi and Village: Khairlanji. Many of the people in the village own a couple of acres here, and a couple of acres there. Prima facie, there don't appear to be specimens of the "arrogant landlord" variety here.
Also, how much caste consciousness is there in the village, when the killer's wife works for a relative of the victims?