The 28-year-old woman doctor who allegedly died by suicide in Maharashtra's Satara district had called one of the accused before ending her life, and the two had also exchanged text messages, police said on Friday.

The doctor, posted at a government hospital in Phaltan, was found hanging in a hotel room in the town on Thursday night. In her suicide note written on her palm, she alleged that police sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped her on multiple occasions, and software engineer Prashant Bankar mentally harassed her.

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The woman lived as a tenant in a flat owned by Bankar's father, a senior police official told PTI.

She had called Prashant Bankar, who works in Pune, over phone before ending her life, an

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