Updated Feb 26, 2021 | 10:21 IST
Police have booked the accused under IPC sections 379 (theft), 297 (wounding feelings of a person or insulting the religion or beliefs) and 511 (an offence punishable with imprisonment for life). Pyre ashes stolen in Maharashtra [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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Later, the villagers called the police and handed over the accused to them.
The accused were battling financial crisis, police inquiries revealed.
Aurangabad: In an unusual incident, four people, including two women, were caught stealing ashes from the pyre of a woman in Devgaon Khurd village of Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district, following which they were thrashed and handed over to the police by local residents.