Khairlanji is a village in Mohadi Taluka of
Bhandara district of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
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India. The village comes in limelight due to
Khairlanji massacre
The Kherlanji massacre (or Khairlanji massacre) refers to the murders of four Scheduled Caste citizens by villagers of Khairlanji on 29 September 2006. The killings took place in a small village in India named Kherlanji, located in the Bhanda ...
of 2006 lynching-style murders of a Dalit family by members of the Kunbi, a backward caste in India.
Villages in Bhandara district
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