The accused software program engineer from Pune, Prashant Bankar, who was arrested on Saturday in reference to the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old lady authorities physician in Maharashtra’s Satara district, following the give up of a co-accused, alleged that the physician had harassed him by pressuring him to marry her and interact in a bodily relationship, in keeping with the police.
Bankar was one of many two males the physician had talked about in her suicide.
“We had known as him and instructed him to give up. His social media information and name particulars have been given to the police. My brother by no means known as the physician. As a substitute, it was the physician who used to name him repeatedly and harass him,” Instances Of India quoted the techie’s brother as saying.
Bankar’s sister said, “Final month, my brother got here to Phaltan to get better from dengue an infection. The physician handled him, they usually exchanged numbers. Round 15 days in the past, she proposed marriage to him. He turned down the proposal. Throughout Diwali, she appeared tense, however we thought it was work-related. She was like household to us, and our mom handled her as her personal daughter.”
“Numerous chats and name recordings between the accused and the deceased have been discovered during which she is talking about stress, strain, and so on” a police officer talked about, as per a TOI report.
The physician was cremated at her native village in Wadwani tehsil, Beed, on Friday evening. Her relations are demanding the dying penalty for the accused. A relative instructed a information channel that she had complained a number of instances about harassment, however her grievances had been ignored.
One other relative claimed that the sufferer was pressured to change medical reviews on the sub-district hospital the place she labored. “Political individuals in Phaltan usually requested her to vary medical reviews as she was once recurrently on post-mortem responsibility. She had complained a number of instances towards the PSI (named within the be aware), however her complaints weren’t seemed into,” the relative added, in keeping with a PTI report.
‘Nobody might be spared’
“It is a very critical situation. A younger physician wrote her suicide be aware on her hand earlier than committing suicide. It is vitally unlucky, and the federal government, instantly taking motion, has suspended the involved police officers, and arrests are additionally being made. Nobody might be spared. Strict motion might be taken… Politicising such a delicate situation could be very insensitive,” ANI quoted Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as saying.
In the meantime, “A court docket remanded the techie in four-day police custody until Oct 28,” Satara SP Tushar Doshi mentioned.

