Satara: A new twist has emerged in the suicide case of a 29-year-old woman doctor from Satara, after the family of accused Prashant Bankar claimed that the doctor had proposed marriage to him but he refused, saying he considered her “like an elder sister.”

According to Bankar’s family, the two had become close a few months ago when the doctor treated him for dengue. His sister told reporters that their friendship later deepened, and earlier this month the doctor allegedly sent him a marriage proposal over text. “He turned it down and told her he saw her as an elder sister,” she said. The family added that the doctor made “repeated and desperate calls” to him a day before her death. They have now submitted screenshots of those calls and messages to the police.

The doctor was found dead in

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