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New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Police in Maharashtra’s Satara district on Saturday arrested an accused in the death of a woman doctor, who committed suicide after she was allegedly repeatedly raped by a police officer and pressured by an MP to falsify the medical report of the accused in the case.
According to officials, the arrested man has been identified as Prashant Bankar, son of the doctor’s landlord, whose name is mentioned in his four-page suicide note.
The deceased doctor, a native of Beed district, was posted as a medical officer in a government hospital in Phaltan, Satara. On Thursday night, she was found hanging in a hotel room under mysterious circumstances. The shocking thing is that she had written a suicide note on her palm, in which she had named sub-inspectors Gopal Badane and Prashant Bankar, accusing the police officer of rape and Prashant of mental harassment.
After Prashant’s arrest, the police said that he will be produced in the court and his custody will be sought for further investigation. Meanwhile, sub-inspector Badane has been suspended, and a detailed investigation is underway. A case has been registered against both the accused at Phaltan police station. Satara SP Tushar Doshi confirmed that the rape allegations and Prashant’s role are being thoroughly investigated.
The woman doctor who allegedly committed suicide has left behind a detailed four-page suicide note, besides an inked note on the palm of her hand, in which she has stated that a police officer raped her four times and pressurized her to issue fake fitness certificates for persons accused in police cases. Now it has come to light in her note that she was allegedly under pressure not only from police officials but also from a Member of Parliament (MP) and his personal assistants.
The woman doctor, who worked as a medical officer at Phaltan sub-district hospital, wrote on her palm that Sub-Inspector Gopal Badane raped her four times and mentally and physically abused her for more than five months.
The doctor, originally from Beed district, was working in the hospital for 23 months.
Gopal Badane is a police officer, while Prashant Bankar is the son of the landlord where the doctor lived.
She complained to various authorities 21 times, but no action was taken against those who tortured her.
Referring to a particular instance in his note, the doctor said he had refused to issue the certificate and two personal assistants of an MP had come to the hospital and made him talk to her over the phone. He said in his note that during that conversation the MP had indirectly threatened him.
His cousin also made similar allegations against the doctor of fudging medical certificates.
–IANS
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