New Delhi: In a significant development in the Maharashtra’s female doctor’s rape and suicide case in Satara district, police arrested Sub-Inspector Gopal Badane after he surrendered at the Phaltan Police Station.

Badane, who had been absconding since his suspension, is accused of repeatedly raping a woman doctor and driving her to suicide. He will be produced before the court on Sunday.

Earlier on Saturday, police arrested another accused, Prashant Bankar, the son of the deceased doctor’s landlord. Bankar has been charged with mentally harassing the doctor, whose name appeared alongside Badane’s in her four-page suicide note and in a message written on her palm before her death.

According to officials, the deceased was a government medical officer posted at the Phaltan sub-district ho

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