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PUNE: A 50-year-old woman from Kohinde Khurd village in Khed taluka about 50km from Pune and her husband were beaten to death by two brothers on the suspicion that she was practising black magic which affected them. “When her husband tried to save her, the duo bludgeoned him to death,” Madgulkar said. They thought Lilabai had performed some black magic on them and hatched a plot to eliminate her.”They barged into Mukane’s hut and started attacking her with sticks. “They told us their names and that all of them had consumed liquor near Mukane’s hut. The victim, Lilabai Mukane and her husband Navasu, 55, were sleeping in their hut on a farm.To misguide the police, the suspects Jaisu Borkar and Baban Borkar placed about 15 sticks and liquor bottles at the spot..