Pune, Jun 5 (PTI) The father of a teenage Dalit boy, whose murder in 2014 over a love affair with an upper caste girl had rocked Maharashtra, died on Monday in Ahmednagar after prolonged illness, a kin said.

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Raju Aage, father of Nitin Aage, died in his home in Kharda, some 120 kilometres from here, and the last rites will be performed on Tuesday, he added.

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Nitin Aage, 17 years old at the time, was brutally murdered on April 28, 2014 in the village after he was suspected of being in a relationship with a Maratha girl.

Raju Aage had named 13 persons for the murder of his son, all of whom were acquitted in November 2017 for lack of evidence.

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