Doctor suicide row: Four-page suicide note reveals chilling details, MP accused of pressuring her to issue fake certificates
PTC News Desk: The doctor who died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Satara district and accused a police officer of raping her four times also left behind a four-page suicide note. In it, she alleged that she was pressured to issue fake fitness certificates for accused individuals in police cases and faced harassment when she refused.
The letter further claims that the pressure came not only from police officials but also, in one instance, from a Member of Parliament and his two personal assistants.
The 26-year-old medical officer, posted at the Phaltan sub-district hospital, had written on her palm that Sub-Inspector Gopal Badne had raped her four times and subjected her to months of mental and physical torture. She had been working at the hospital for 23 months and was only a month away from completing her mandatory rural service bond, after which she planned to pursue postgraduate medical studies.
In one incident detailed in her note, she said that after she refused to issue a certificate, two personal assistants of an MP came to the hospital, called the MP, and made her speak to him. The MP allegedly threatened her indirectly over the call.
The letter also accuses her landlord, Prashant Bankar, of harassment. Following her death, both Badne and Bankar have been booked for rape and abetment to suicide, and the police officer has been suspended.
Inspector General of Police (Kolhapur Division) Sunil Phulari confirmed that an FIR has been registered and an investigation is underway based on the evidence collected so far.
- PTC NEWS
