Maharashtra doctor ends life, accuses two policemen of rape in note

A pistillate doc of a authorities infirmary was recovered dormant successful a edifice country successful Maharashtra’s Satara district, leaving down a enactment accusing 2 constabulary unit of rape and intelligence harassment, constabulary said connected Friday (October 24, 2025).

The unfortunate was recovered dormant successful a edifice country successful Phaltan precocious connected Thursday (October 23, 2025) night, pursuing which the constabulary were alerted, an authoritative said.

The deceased was a autochthonal of Beed territory and worked astatine a authorities infirmary successful Phaltan tehsil, the authoritative said.

Taking cognisance of the incident, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis spoke to the Satara Superintendent of Police, ordering the contiguous suspension of the constabulary officers named successful the enactment near down by the deceased pistillate doctor.

Mr. Fadnavis, who besides holds the Home Department portfolio, instructed that strict enactment beryllium taken against each the accused progressive successful the case, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) stated successful a release.

In a enactment written connected her palm, the doc alleged that she had been raped and mentally harassed by 2 unit of the Satara constabulary implicit the past 5 months.

She wrote that sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped and sexually harassed her connected aggregate occasions, and different personnel, Prashant Bankar, mentally harassed her.

“We person registered a case, and the assemblage has been sent for post-mortem. We are besides investigating the allegations mentioned successful the termination enactment connected the victim's hand,” an authoritative from the Satara constabulary said.

Maharashtra Women’s Commission main Rupali Chakankar, meanwhile, said, “We person taken cognisance of the substance and ordered Satara Police to instrumentality strict enactment against the accused. Teams person been deployed to hunt the accused. Those progressive successful this unfortunate incidental volition not beryllium spared.”