Maharashtra Police have made another arrest in connection with the alleged rape of a 29-year-old government doctor who died by suicide in Satara on Thursday.

Police sub-inspector Gopal Badne was arrested after he surrendered before Satara police on Saturday evening, hours after a co-accused had been nabbed.

Prashant Banker, a software engineer, had been arrested by a team of Phaltan police from Pune in the morning.

Badne has already been suspended from service after his name came up during the probe.

The doctor, hailing from Beed district and posted at a government hospital in Satara, was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town on Thursday night. In a suicide note written on her palm, she alleged that Badne had raped her multiple times while Banker mentally harassed her.

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