A software engineer has been arrested in connection with the suicide of a 28-year-old doctor in Maharashtra. The victim alleged sexual abuse by a police officer and mental harassment by the techie, prompting calls for capital punishment

Pune/Satara: 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 the doctor had named in a suicide note written on her palm, from Pune, around 125km from Satara, in the morning, he said.

Bankar, accused of mentally harassing the victim and now facing abetment of suicide charge, was later produced before a Satara district court which sent him to police custod

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