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Members of the family of the girl physician who died in Maharashtra’s Satara district Final week demanded on Monday that the federal government arrange a Particular Investigation Staff to probe the case.
The trial needs to be held in a fast-track courtroom in Beed, they stated at a press convention.
“We’ve got some calls for for the chief minister. An SIT needs to be fashioned on the earliest, and we won’t go to Phaltan (the place the girl died) to report our statements. The case needs to be tried in a fast-track courtroom in Beed. The allegations which can be being made towards my sister needs to be verified by checking the CDR (Name Element Data),” stated a lady relative.
The complaints made by the girl physician up to now weren’t heeded, and a recent inquiry needs to be held into them, she added.
A male family member of the deceased girl raised questions concerning the give up of suspended police sub-inspector Gopal Badane, one of many two arrested accused.
“Police stored looking for him. They fashioned 5 groups and despatched them in several instructions. Then how did the accused give up a day earlier than the CM’s go to (to Phaltan)?…We expect he destroyed all of the proof after which surrendered,” the relative stated.
The 28-year-old physician, hailing from Beed district of central Maharashtra and posted at a authorities hospital in Satara district, was discovered hanging in a lodge room in Phaltan city on Thursday evening.
Within the notice written on her palm, she alleged that police sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped her on a number of events, whereas Prashant Bankar, a software program engineer, mentally harassed her.
The sub-inspector and the engineer have been arrested on Saturday.
In the meantime, Rajya Sabha MP Rajani Patil stated she messaged Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi concerning the incident, and he sought extra particulars.
Patil was talking to reporters after assembly the household.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi had on Sunday termed the physician’s demise an “institutionalised homicide” and claimed her demise exposes the “inhuman and insensitive” nature of the BJP-led authorities Patil additionally stated that after assembly the household she discovered that she had confronted harassment from the well being in addition to dwelling departments.
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One in all girl’s family members had claimed earlier that she confronted stress from police to alter medical reviews when accused have been dropped at the federal government hospital at Phaltan for medical examination after an arrest.
“The inquiry ought to happen impartially and an SIT needs to be fashioned on this case,” Patil stated.
“We solely say `Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao. However is that this the safety the `double engine’ authorities is offering to the ladies? Girls are in no way protected right here,” Patil stated.
Holding a press convention in Pune, one other Opposition chief, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Sushma Andhare, requested whether or not it was a homicide.
“Why did the physician go to that lodge at midnight? What prompted her to go there at 1 am? Was she summoned there or did she go on her personal? The physician’s sister is saying the handwriting on the physician’s palm isn’t hers. If it is not hers, then whose is it? Did the physician actually die by suicide, or was she murdered?” Ms. Andhare requested.
By naming solely Badane and Bankar as accused, the bigger conspiracy was being hidden, Andhare claimed.
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Printed – October 28, 2025 05:30 am IST