Woman doctor's death in Satara: Family demands SIT, trial in Beed court

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Family members of the woman doc who died successful Maharashtra's Satara district past week demanded connected Monday that the authorities acceptable up a Special Investigation Team to probe the case.

The proceedings should beryllium held successful a fast-track tribunal successful Beed, they said astatine a property conference.

"We person immoderate demands for the main minister. An SIT should beryllium formed astatine the earliest, and we volition not spell to Phaltan (where the pistillate died) to grounds our statements. The lawsuit should beryllium tried successful a fast-track tribunal successful Beed. The allegations that are being made against my sister should beryllium verified by checking the CDR (Call Detail Records)," said a pistillate relative.

The complaints made by the pistillate doc successful the past were not heeded, and a caller enquiry should beryllium held into them, she added.

A antheral comparative of the deceased pistillate raised questions astir the surrender of suspended constabulary sub-inspector Gopal Badane, 1 of the 2 arrested accused.

"Police kept searching for him. They formed 5 teams and sent them successful antithetic directions. Then however did the accused surrender a time earlier the CM's sojourn (to Phaltan)?....We deliberation helium destroyed each the grounds and past surrendered," the comparative said.

The 28-year-old doctor, hailing from Beed territory of cardinal Maharashtra and posted astatine a authorities infirmary successful Satara district, was recovered hanging successful a edifice country successful Phaltan municipality connected Thursday night.

In the enactment written connected her palm, she alleged that constabulary sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped her connected aggregate occasions, portion Prashant Bankar, a bundle engineer, mentally harassed her.

The sub-inspector and the technologist were arrested connected Saturday.

Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha MP Rajani Patil said she messaged Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi astir the incident, and helium sought much details.

Patil was speaking to reporters aft gathering the family.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi had connected Sunday termed the doctor’s decease an “institutionalised murder” and claimed her decease exposes the “inhuman and insensitive” quality of the BJP-led authorities Patil besides said that aft gathering the household she learned that she had faced harassment from the wellness arsenic good arsenic location departments.

Watch: Why a young pistillate doctor’s alleged termination points to a deeper systemic rot successful Maharashtra

One of woman's relatives had claimed earlier that she faced unit from constabulary to alteration aesculapian reports erstwhile accused were brought to the authorities infirmary astatine Phaltan for aesculapian introspection aft an arrest.

"The enquiry should instrumentality spot impartially and an SIT should beryllium formed successful this case," Patil said.

"We lone accidental `Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao. But is this the information the `double engine' authorities is providing to the women? Women are not astatine each harmless here," Patil said.

Holding a property league successful Pune, different Opposition leader, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Sushma Andhare, asked whether it was a murder.

"Why did the doc spell to that edifice astatine midnight? What prompted her to spell determination astatine 1 am? Was she summoned determination oregon did she spell connected her own? The doctor's sister is saying the handwriting connected the doctor's thenar is not hers. If it isn't hers, past whose is it? Did the doc truly dice by suicide, oregon was she murdered?" Ms. Andhare asked.

By naming lone Badane and Bankar arsenic accused, the larger conspiracy was being hidden, Andhare claimed.

(Those successful distress tin telephone the helplines: Connecting NGO, 1800 843 4353 (Toll-Free)/9922001122, Daily: 12 noon to 8 p.m., Pune)

Published - October 28, 2025 05:30 americium IST

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