NEW DELHI: A police sub-inspector in Maharashtra‘s Satara district has been suspended and arrested, together with one civilian, after a girl physician died by suicide and accused them of rape and harassment. Satara District Police registered a case in opposition to PSI Gopal Badane and one other man, Bankar, below fees of rape and abetment to suicide. “The accused PSI has been suspended from responsibility with rapid impact. Police have launched an investigation into the case,” Satara District SP Tushar Doshi advised ANI.The cousin brother of the deceased physician alleged that she had been below “a number of police and political stress” to falsify autopsy experiences. “There was a number of police and political stress on her to make unsuitable mortem experiences. She tried to complain about it. My sister ought to get justice,” he advised ANI.The girl, who labored at a authorities hospital in Phaltan tehsil and was a local of Beed district, was discovered hanging in a resort room late on Thursday night time. A suicide observe, written on her palm, claimed she had been raped and mentally harassed by two police personnel over a number of months. In accordance with the observe, sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped her a number of instances, whereas one other officer, Prashant Bankar, subjected her to psychological harassment.Following the incident, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis spoke to the Satara Superintendent of Police and ordered the rapid suspension of the officers named within the suicide observe. Fadnavis, who additionally holds the Dwelling Division portfolio, directed strict motion in opposition to all of the accused.In the meantime, Maharashtra Girls’s Fee chief Rupali Chakankar stated the panel had taken cognizance of the case. “Now we have taken cognizance of the matter and ordered Satara Police to take strict motion in opposition to the accused. Groups have been deployed to hunt the accused. These concerned on this unlucky incident is not going to be spared,” she stated.
