The officials said that Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde's close aide Walmik Karad, wanted in an extortion case linked to the murder of a sarpanch in Beed district, surrendered before police in Pune on Tuesday, reported news agency PTI.

VIDEO | Maharashtra: Walmik Karad, accused in the murder case of Beed Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, surrendered at the CID office in Pune, earlier today.

Deshmukh, sarpanch of Massajog in Beed, was abducted, tortured and murdered on December 9 after he intervened to stop an… pic.twitter.com/UhDa722fl6