Summary:
more-inBarely three weeks after two Shiv Sena leaders were murdered in Ahmednagar, the district witnessed a fresh bout of violence after two Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers were shot dead in Jamkhed Tehsil on Saturday evening. According to police sources, the two NCP workers were repeatedly shot at point-blank range by three motorcycle-borne assailants near an eatery on the Beed-Jamkhed road. Earlier this month, two Shiv Sena leaders from Ahmednagar — Sanjay Kotkar and Vasant Thube — were murdered in the Ahmednagar’s Kedgaon area, sending shock waves across the district and prompting a vandalism spree on part of incensed Sena workers. The deceased have been identified as Yogesh Ambadas Ralebhat (30), NCP youth wing leader, and his cousin Rakesh Arjun Ralebhat (28), also a party worker. “Prima facie, the crime appears to be the fallout of a local dispute rather than a case of political rivalry..