POLICE Sub-Inspector Gopal Badane, an accused in the alleged suicide of a woman Government doctor in Maharashtra’s Satara district, was arrested on Saturday evening hours after a co-accused had been nabbed.

 

Earlier in the morning, a team from the Phaltan police arrested software engineer Prashant Bankar, one of the two men the doctor had named in her suicide note, from Pune. PSI Badane landed at the Phaltan Rural Police Station and surrendered, said Satara SP Tushar Doshi. Bankar, accused of mentally harassing the victim and now facing abetment of suicide charge, was produced before a Satara district court which sent him to police custody for four days.

 

Beed district in the Marathwada region of central Maharashtra and posted at a GovernmenthospitalinSatara district, was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town on Thursday night.

 

In the suicide note written on her palm, she alleged that Police Sub-Inspector Badane raped her on multiple occasions, while Bankar,asoftware engineer, mentally harassed her. A case of rape and abetment of suicide was registered against the duo in Phaltan in Satara district.

 

According to the police, Bankar is the son of the landlord of the house where the doctor resided. She had allegedly called him over the phone and chatted with him beforeendingherlife,theysaid. Sub-InspectorBadanewassuspended from service after his name came up during the probe.

 

Thedoctor,meanwhile, was cremated at her native place inBeed’sWadwanitehsil on Friday night. Her relatives demand capital punishment fortheaccusedinthecase.

 

She complained multiple times about harassment, but her grievanceswerenotaddressed, a relative alleged while talking to a news channel. Another relative relative claimed the victim was pressured to change medical reports atthe sub-districthospital where she worked.