Satara doctor dies by suicide; accuses cop of rape; two booked

THE WOMAN HAS ALLEGED RAPE BY THE COP SEVERAL TIMES, AND MENTAL HARASSMENT BY THE SON OF HER LANDLORD

- Shrinivas Deshpande

A 29-year-old doctor at a Maharashtra government-run hospital has died by suicide, accusing a sub-inspector of raping her multiple times and another man of mentally and physically harassing her over the past four to five months in Satara district, police said on Friday, adding that both the accused have been booked and the police officer has been suspended.

According to police, the victim was posted as a medical officer in a government hospital in Satara’s Phaltan area on a contractual basis, and was found hanging inside a hotel room in the town on Thursday night.

A note written on her palm in Marathi had alleged that Phaltan City police station sub-inspector Gopal Badane had raped her four times, and that her landlord's son Prashant Bankar physically and mentally harassed her for five months. HT has seen the note.