Former President Pratibha Patil's younger brother has been named as an accused in the murder of a Congress leader in 2005 in Maharashtra. Gajendrasing Patil was described by two people arrested by the police as the mastermind of the killing of Professor VG Patil of the Congress in Jalgaon, over 400 kilometres from Mumbai. His car was stoned and then he was stabbed to death. The death was widely believed to be a case of political rivalry.
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