Maharashtra doctor suicide: Son of the deceased’s landlord, Prashant Bankar, arrested

Bankar will be produced in court on Saturday, said SP TusharDoshi of Satara police.

The Maharashtra doctor suicide case has made it to the top of the headlines. On Saturday, the Maharashtra police arrested Prashant Bankar, who is one of the accused in the suicide case of a 29-year-old woman doctor in Phaltantaluka of the Satara district.

Prashant Bankar, one of the accused, gets arrested.

On Saturday, in the Maharashtra doctor suicide case, one of the accused, Prashant Bankar, son of the deceased’s landlord, was arrested. Bankar is one of the two accused in the suicide case of the 29-year-old woman doctor in Phaltantaluka of the Satara district. Prashant Bankar will be produced in court on Saturday, said SP Satara Police TusharDoshi, reported ANI news agency. The other accused in the Satara suicide case, police sub-inspector Gopal Badne, is still absconding, and a search is underway to nab him. A note written on the deceased’s palm in Marathi had alleged that Phaltan City police station sub-inspector (PSI) Gopal Badne had raped her four times and that her landlord’s son, Prashant Bankar, physically and mentally harassed her for five months. The PSI involved in the case has been suspended.

The doctor in her note accused a sub-inspector.

As per the police, the victim was posted as a medical officer in a government hospital in Satara’sPhaltan area on a contractual basis, and was found hanging inside a hotel room in the town on Thursday night. The doctor in her note accused a sub-inspector of raping her multiple times and another man of mentally and physically harassing her over the past four to five months in Satara district, said police on Friday.

TusharDoshi said, “Based on the complaint lodged by the victim’s family, we have registered an FIR against PSI Badane and Prashant Bankar on charges of rape and abetment to suicide.” He added that the body had been sent for post-mortem examination.