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Four members of the Bheel tribal community were allegedly beaten to death with sticks and sharp-edged weapons in a fight between two families at Bokdia village in the Chandpur police station area of Alirajpur on Thursday night, Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Singh said.
A couple had eloped from the village over a year ago, and the girl had decamped with silver ornaments from her home, and since then the two families have been fighting over the valuables, the official said. The boy’s cousins Smaull (25) and Sukdev (22), and the girl’s grandfather Bhal Singh (50) and uncle Nanbu (25), were killed in the fight, he said.
The police have registered two cases in this regard, the official added.
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The deaths came to light when the couple’s neighbors got worried after the family did not step out for Diwali celebrations and peeped into their home, an official said.
Yogesh Namdeo (35), his wife Sunita (32), and son Divyansh (12) were found dead with injury marks on their bodies, he said.
”We are probing the incident from all angles. We suspect robbers might have committed the crime following initial investigations,” Seoni Malwa sub-divisional officer of police Somya Agarwal said.