Former President Pratibha Patil's brother was today named by the sessions court as an accused in the 2005 murder of a local Congress leader here.
Additional Sessions Judge D J Shegokar passed the order naming Gajendra Narayan Patil, the former President's younger brother, and ex-MLA Ulhas Patil as accused in response to an application filed by the wife of victim Professor V G Patil.
V G Patil, the then chief of Jalgaon district Congress, was murdered in September 2005.
