Two suspects, including a police sub-inspector, had been taken into custody in connection with the suicide death of a 29-year-old Satara doctor.

On Thursday, the doctor assigned to the Phaltan Sub-District Hospital was discovered dead in her hotel room in Phaltan.

She accused police sub-inspector Gopal Badane, the second suspect, of sexual assault and Prashant Bankar, the first suspect, of mental harassment in a suicide note written on her hand.

Bankar, a software engineer and the son of the doctor's landlord, was taken into custody by police on Friday night from a property close to Pune. But according to Satara SP Tushar Doshi, Badane was arrested after turning himself in at the Phaltan Rural Police Station.

According to the police, the doctor and Bankar were in a relationship prior

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