Techie Named by Woman Doctor in Note Arrested from Pune, Sent to 4-Day Police Custody

PTI, PUNE/SATARA, OCT 25, 2025 : Police on Saturday arrested a software engineer in connection with the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old woman doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, an official said.

A team from the Phaltan police arrested Prashant Bankar, one of the two men named by the doctor in a suicide note written on her palm, from Pune, around 125 km from Satara, in the morning. Bankar, accused of mentally harassing the victim and now facing a charge of abetment to suicide, was later produced before a Satara district court, which sent him to police custody for four days, the official added.

The doctor, who hailed from Beed district in the Marathwada region of central Maharashtra and was posted at a government hospital in Satara district, was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town on Thursday night.

In the suicide note written on her palm, she alleged that Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) Gopal Badane raped her on multiple occasions, while Bankar, a software engineer, mentally harassed her. A case of rape and abetment to suicide was registered against the duo in Phaltan, Satara district.

According to the police, Bankar is the son of the landlord of the house where the doctor resided. She had allegedly called him over the phone and chatted with him before taking her life, they said.

Sub-Inspector Badane, who is yet to be arrested, was suspended from service after his name came up during the probe, police said.

The doctor was cremated at her native place in Beed's Wadwani tehsil on Friday night. Her relatives have demanded capital punishment for the accused in the case. A relative, speaking to a news channel, claimed that the doctor had complained multiple times about harassment, but her grievances were not addressed.

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