India, July 1 -- The Chhattisgarh government has handed over the probe into the killing of three people, including a businessman, linked to a rivalry between two families over sand mining operations in the central Indian state's Korea district in June, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The state home department issued a notification transferring the investigation on Tuesday.

Bharat Singh, 60, the businessman, Virendra Pratap Singh, 32, and Nagendra Singh, 53, were killed, and two others were seriously injured after a tipper truck hit their SUV, jamming its doors and preventing those inside from escaping. The assailants then allegedly poured fuel on the SUV and set it on fire. Those who tried to flee by breaking the windows we...