Suspended sub-inspector Gopal Badane, an accused in the alleged suicide by a woman doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, has been dismissed from service, officials said on Wednesday.

Badane was arrested after the 28-year-old doctor was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town of the district on the night of October 23.

While police called it a death by suicide, the doctor left a note written on her palm, alleging that Badane had raped her multiple times. In the same note, she had also accused a techie named Prashant Bankar of mentally harassing her.

The Satara police have said in a statement that Badane was accused of “unethical and indecent and irresponsible behaviour by misusing his position”. His actions were described as unbecoming of a police officer and detrimental to the

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