A 26-year-old woman doctor from Maharashtra’s Satara district, who died by suicide earlier this week, has left behind a four-page letter revealing shocking details of alleged sexual assault, harassment and corruption.

The doctor, serving as a medical officer at the Phaltan sub-district hospital, accused Sub-Inspector Gopal Badne of raping her four times and subjecting her to mental and physical torture for over five months. Before taking her life, she wrote on her palm that she had been raped by Badne.

In her suicide note, she also alleged that several police officers —and even a Member of Parliament (MP) along with his personal assistants—had pressured her to issue fake fitness certificates for accused individuals who were never brought in for medical examination. When she refused, sh

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