A talented and compassionate doctor who treated people and saved lives every day, found herself driven to take her own life one night. She scribbled a note on her hand with a pen before ending her life in a hotel. The words etched on her hands were a painful revelation, a story that has shaken all of Maharashtra.
According to an agency report, a 33-year-old lady doctor employed at Phaltan sub-district hospital hanged herself in a hotel two days earlier. When the police reached the room, their eyes immediately caught the note written on her palm. It was not mere words but a revelation of a systemic truth. She had written that PSI Gopal Badne raped her multiple times. Prashant Banker mentally harassed her.
This girl hailed from a village in Beed district's Wadwani tehsil. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. The family wasn’t financially strong, but the daughter had big dreams - to become a doctor. Her farmer father even took a loan of 300,000 rupees to fund her MBBS degree. The daughter worked hard, passed her exams, and joined government services. Her posting was at the Phaltan sub-district hospital in Satara district. It was a source of pride for the family. She was a girl from the village who made her name as a doctor, but now she has become a casualty of the system.
Source: aajtak
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Her two cousins are also doctors and alleged that the hospital administration assigned her postmortem duties to trouble her. According to the victim's family, she wanted to pursue MD (Doctor of Medicine) studies and was preparing for it.
Her uncle revealed that the loan of 300,000 taken for the MBBS course was still unpaid. Her father is a farmer with limited education; I’m a teacher, and I brought her to Beed for schooling. She didn't want to stop at MBBS but aimed to pursue MD in Medicine, ENT, or a non-clinical branch.
Source: aajtak
Unfulfilled Career Aspirations
The dream for this doctor daughter was to do MD and advance in the medical field. As per her family, she was preparing for it. But she was frequently assigned postmortem duties at her workplace. The family alleged that the hospital administration deliberately gave her autopsy duties. Even political pressures were placed on her to alter medical reports. The family claims that the doctor daughter complained multiple times.
The suicide note named two individuals: Sub-Inspector Gopal Badne and software engineer Prashant Banker, the son of her landlord. In her note, she wrote that Gopal Badne sexually abused her multiple times over four months. He threatened her. Prashant Banker mentally harassed her. An FIR mentions that before her suicide, she spoke with Prashant on the phone.
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On Thursday evening, the doctor went to a hotel room in Phaltan. Around 9 PM, she made a final call to Prashant Banker. After that, silence ensued. Once the hotel staff discovered her, the police were informed. The door was broken down, and she was found hanging. A note was written on her palm.
Police Actions So Far
In this case, the police have arrested Sub-Inspector Gopal Badne. Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi stated that Badne surrendered at the Phaltan Rural Police Station in Satara on Saturday evening and was subsequently arrested. Earlier, on Saturday morning, the Phaltan police arrested software engineer Prashant Banker from Pune, whose name was mentioned alongside Badne's in the suicide note.
Source: aajtak
Prashant Banker faces charges of mentally harassing the victim and provoking her suicide. He appeared in the Satara Court on Saturday, where he was given a four-day police custody remand. The police comments that Prashant Banker is the son of the landlord at whose house the doctor stayed. The doctor called Prashant before her suicide.
Meanwhile, her final rites were performed on Friday night at her ancestral place in Wadwani tehsil, Beed. Her family demanded capital punishment for the accused. A relative alleged that the victim had complained about harassment multiple times, but her complaints went unaddressed.
Another relative claimed that at the sub-district hospital where she worked, the victim was pressured to alter medical reports. The relative said that political figures from Phaltan frequently asked her to change medical records, as she routinely handled postmortem duties. She had lodged multiple complaints against PSI (named in the note), but her grievances went unheeded.
