Police have arrested sub-inspector Gopal Badane in connection with the alleged suicide by a woman government doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, officials said.

Badane surrendered at the Phaltan Rural Police Station in Satara on Saturday evening following which he was arrested, Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi said.

Earlier, on Saturday morning, a team from the Phaltan police arrested software engineer Prashant Bankar, whom the doctor had named along with Badane in her suicide note, from Pune.

Bankar, accused of mentally harassing the victim and facing abetment of suicide charge, was produced on Saturday before a Satara district court which sent him to police custody for four days.

The doctor, hailing from Beed district in the Marathwada region of central Maharashtra and post

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