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Beed, Oct 29 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday spoke on phone to the family members of a female doctor of Maharashtra’s Satara hospital who committed suicide and assured them of justice.
He assured them, “Don’t be afraid, we stand with you. The Congress party will put pressure on the government to ensure justice to the doctor.”
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi also sought complete information about the case from the victim’s family and Maharashtra Congress President Harshvardhan Sapkal.
The state Congress party said in a post on Twitter, “A female doctor in Satara, Maharashtra, committed suicide after being fed up with rape and harassment. Today, opposition leader @RahulGandhi spoke to her family on phone and assured them of justice. During this, Maharashtra Congress President @INCHarshsapkal and IYC President @UdaybhanuIYC were present there. What happened to the female doctor raises serious questions about the safety of women in the society. We are with them.” Family- We will ensure that justice is served at any cost.
State Congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal, who met the woman doctor’s family, has demanded that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) be formed and the investigation be conducted under the supervision of a High Court judge and former BJP MP Ranjitsinh Naik Nimbalkar be immediately arrested.
“It would not be wrong to say that the death of the young doctor from Beed district was not suicide but murder. The female doctor took her life due to unbearable pressure and harassment,” he claimed.
Speaking to the media after the visit, Sapkal said that the woman doctor was put under immense pressure to commit wrongdoing and was severely harassed.
He said, “Many incidents have already come to light exposing the criminality of Naik Nimbalkar. What is infuriating is that even before any investigation could be initiated, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis publicly gave a clean chit to Ranjitsinh Naik Nimbalkar. This is disgraceful. The investigation should have been conducted outside Phaltan under the supervision of a senior woman officer.”
He also claimed that Congress will not remain silent and will take to the streets to get justice for the woman doctor.
Sapkal further said that the role of the State Women Commission in this matter is equally disappointing. Instead of meeting the victim’s family and gathering facts, he first met the police and tried to hush up the matter.
He said, “The commission should focus on addressing injustice against women, but instead, it chose to defend the police. Not a single representative from the women doctors’ community has spoken out. During earlier incidents in Beed, a local MLA from the ruling party used to speak to the media every day, but now he is silent. Minister Pankaja Munde is also silent – she should speak up, bypassing political pressure from the Chief Minister.”
The 28-year-old doctor from Phaltan town in Satara district died by suicide on the night of October 23. She left a suicide note on her palm and a detailed four-page letter accusing two men of harassment.
Satara police have arrested the accused police sub-inspector Gopal Badane (accused of repeated rape) and Prashant Bankar (son of a software engineer and her landlord, accused of mental harassment). Both have been sent to police custody.
–IANS
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