Walmik Karad, one of the primary accused in the high-profile murder of Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, has approached a court in Maharashtra’s Beed district seeking to be discharged from the case, claiming that no prima facie evidence links him to the crime, reported PTI.

The application was filed in the context of the ongoing investigation led by the Maharashtra Crime Investigation Department (CID), which is probing into the Beed Sarpanch murder case. The Beed court, upon reviewing the plea, has directed the Crime Investigation Department (CID) to furnish its response. The matter is now scheduled for further hearing on April 24, PTI reported.