Satara doctor suicide case: Suspended cop dismissed from service

Pune: Suspended sub-inspector Gopal Badane, accused in the alleged suicide of a woman doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, has been dismissed from service, officials said on Wednesday.

The accused sub-inspector was arrested after the 28-year-old doctor was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town of the district on the night of October 23.

While police called it a death by suicide, the doctor left a note written on her palm, alleging that Badane had raped her multiple times. In the same note, she had also accused a techie named Prashant Bankar for physically and mentally harassing her.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that in a new development in the Maharashtra female doctor's alleged rape and suicide case in Satara district, police have arrested Sub-Inspector Gopal Badane, who surrendered at the Phaltan Police Station. Sub-inspector Badane, who had been absconding since his suspension, is accused of repeatedly raping a woman doctor and driving her to suicide. He was produced before the court.

A woman doctor working at a Phaltan Sub-District Hospital in Maharashtra’s Satara district had allegedly died by suicide, leaving a note on her palm, accusing a police officer and a software engineer of rape and mental harassment. While the police have arrested the software engineer, the police officer remains at large.

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The Satara police have said in a statement that Badane was accused of “unethical and indecent, and irresponsible behaviour by misusing his position”. His actions were described as unbecoming of a police officer and detrimental to the public trust, it said, news agency PTI reported.

The statement also termed his actions “extremely disgraceful and condemnable”.

“Following the instructions of Special IG Sunil Phulari, Badane has been dismissed from the service under section 311 (2)(b) of Indian Constitution, effective November 4,” said Satara Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi, reports PTI.

Section 311(2)(b) of the Constitution concerns the dismissal, removal, or reduction in rank of a civil servant.

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