The police in Rajasthan have arrested two people in Barmer district for allegedly beating to death a Dalit man for having an affair with a Muslim woman, The Times of India reported on Tuesday. The woman’s husband, who is the main accused, is absconding.

Nearly a dozen people had allegedly lynched 24-year-old Khetaram Bheel on Friday. His family found his body the next day after two of the alleged attackers, Saddam Khan and Hayaat Khan, told them they had killed him and thrown his body in the farm, according to the Hindustan Times.

The autopsy report showed that Bheel was severely beaten up and the attackers also tried to strangulate him, ANI reported. The two men arrested were identified as Pathai Khan and Anwar Khan. Police also detained eight people.

Bheel’s brother is reportedly the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s local Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Morcha.

Bheel ran a brick kiln on land he had leased from the woman’s husband, police said, according to The Times of India. “Probe revealed that Bheel developed illicit relations with the married woman and later with her unmarried sister,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police Surendra Kumar Prajapat.