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The Ganesh festival sees households and 'Mandals' or groups installing idols of the lord at home and in pandals across Maharashtra, but decades ago Agroli village pioneered a different approach which is now emulated by many other villages.
Way back in 1961, communist leader Bhau Sakharam Patil proposed the 'One Village One Ganpati' policy during the Ganesh festival in Agroli, now part of Navi Mumbai region
Investigations into the death of 9 members of the family of 2 brothers in Maharashtra's Sangli district revealed that the victims, including 4 children, were allegedly poisoned to death by a "mantrik" and his accomplice both of whom arrested.
Police had initially suspected that it was a suicide pact and arrested 15 lenders of the 25 accused on the charges of abetment of suicide of the nine members of the family that had borrowed money from them.