The 28-year-old girl physician, who allegedly took her personal life in Maharashtra’s Satara district, had spoken to one of many accused on a telephone name and exchanged textual content messages with him shortly earlier than she dedicated suicide, PTI reported, citing police officers.
The physician, posted at a authorities hospital in Phaltan, was discovered hanging inside a lodge room within the city on Thursday evening.
In her suicide be aware written on her palm, she alleged that police sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped her on a number of events, and software program engineer Prashant Bankar mentally harassed her.
“The girl lived as a tenant in a flat owned by Bankar’s father,” a senior police official advised PTI.
She had referred to as Prashant Bankar, who works in Pune, over telephone earlier than ending her life, and the 2 had additionally exchanged chat messages on cell phone, he added.
Sub-inspector Badane was suspended from service after his identify got here up throughout the probe, the official stated, as reported by PTI.
“A case of alleged rape and abetment to suicide has been registered towards Badane and Bankar,” he added.
No arrest has been made within the case but.
Earlier within the day, a relative of the physician alleged that she was regularly pressured by the police to change medical experiences, each in cases of unnatural deaths and when detainees have been delivered to the hospital for examination.
‘Political strain on her’: Sufferer’s relative
On Satara girl physician’s dying, allegedly by suicide, her cousin brother stated, “There was quite a lot of police and political strain on her to make unsuitable mortem experiences. She tried to complain about it. My sister ought to get justice.”
Crime towards girls: What does NCRB information state?
India recorded practically 4.5 lakh instances of crimes towards girls in 2023, displaying a slight rise in comparison with the earlier two years, in response to the Nationwide Crime Information Bureau (NCRB) report.
The information, compiled from police stations throughout all states and Union Territories, displays the nationwide crime price. The report notes that 4,48,211 instances have been registered in 2023, up from 4,45,256 in 2022 and 4,28,278 in 2021.
