The Chhattisgarh police on Monday arrested eight people in connection with the murder of a 55-year-old man and his 35-year-old son in the state’s communal violence-hit Biranpur village last week, police said.
The bodies of Raheem Mohammad and his son Idul Mohammad were found at a mine, a few kilometres away from the village on April 11, three days after it was rocked by communal violence.
“ The main accused, Takeshwar Sinhna, was aware that the two had gone to graze their goats. He instigated others and then started searching for them. When the accused found the two men, they first thrashed them and then bludgeoned them with stones,” Bemetra Superintendent of Police Indira Kalyan Elesela said.
Violence had erupted between Hindu and Muslim groups in the village on April 8 after a fight between schoolchildren.
A local resident, Bhuneshwar Sahu (22), was killed in the clash. Two houses were burnt down on the outskirts of the village amid a Chhattisgarh called by right- wing organisations on April 10.
