Police sub-inspector Gopal Badane was arrested after the 28-year-old doctor was found dead in a hotel room in Phaltan town of Satara on the night of October 23
The suspended cop was on Wednesday dismissed from services, police said. Representational Pic/File
Suspended Maharashtra Police sub-inspector Gopal Badane, an accused in the alleged suicide of a woman doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, has been dismissed from service, officials said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
Badane was arrested after the 28-year-old doctor was found dead in a hotel room in Phaltan town of Satara 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 for physically and 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 public trust, it said, according to the PTI.
The statement also termed his actions 'extremely disgraceful and condemnable'.
'Following the instructions of Special IG Sunil Phulari, Badane has been dismissed from the service under section 311 (2)(b) of Indian Constitution, effective November 4,' said Satara Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi.
Section 311(2)(b) of the Constitution concerns the dismissal, removal, or reduction in rank of a civil servant, the news agency reported.
Meanwhile, the state government had last week constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case, officials said.
IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute will head the SIT, and the team has been instructed to begin the probe immediately.
The development in the matter followed after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s directive to the state Director General of Police to set up a special team to investigate the case, officials said.
Opposition parties and medical associations had been pressing for an impartial, high-level inquiry into the incident. The deceased doctor was found dead in a hotel room in Phaltan taluka of Satara district last month.
Badne has since been suspended from service.
The case has triggered political controversy, with the Opposition criticising the Chief Minister for allegedly clearing a former BJP MP of any link to the case before the investigation began.
CM Fadnavis, however, maintained that the case should not be politicised and assured strict action against those found guilty.
The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) had earlier launched a protest against the Satara doctor death case, demanding Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the matter.
MARD has expressed deep anguish over the incident, highlighting concerns about administrative accountability, workplace safety, and the dignity of doctors in the government healthcare system.
(with PTI inputs)
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