Priest murdered in Karnataka for solemnising inter-caste marriage

Belagavi, Nov 9 (UNI) A 35-year-old Hindu priest and astrologer was allegedly murdered in Karnataka's Belagavi district for solemnising an inter-caste marriage, with police arresting the woman's father in connection with the crime. The victim, Mandar Ajit Ranade, a resident of Ichalkaranji in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district, was found dead in a sugarcane field near Mankapur village in Nippani taluk on October 31. According to reports, the murder was allegedly planned by Babaso alias Deepak Magdum, a resident of Shiradwad village in Maharashtra, whose 19-year-old daughter Anuja had married Omkar Anand Konche of Shivnakwadi in an inter-caste marriage in January this…