Rebel Congress leader Vishal Patil defeated Shiv Sena UBT candidate in Congress stronghold Sangli, raising suspicions of sabotage within the MVA alliance.
As per the complainant, Jagdish Kudale, Rafiq wanted him and his family to leave the area so that he could house other people from his community in the locality. "The accused and his family time and again used to harass my family. Rafiq used to tease women from our house and look at them often making them feel uncomfortable," he said.
The incident happened in Lavana village in Jat tehsil while four sadhus from Uttar Pradesh were driving from Bijapur in Karnataka to the temple town of Pandharpur.
Renowned leftist media outlets like Aaj Tak, News 18, Hindustan Times and The Indian Express proceeded to give the Sangli mass suicide incident, where accused is said to be a Muslim occultist, a Hindu spin as well