A police sub-inspector and a software engineer have been arrested in connection with the alleged rape and suicide of a woman government doctor in Maharashtra’s Satara district, police said on Saturday.

Police sub-inspector (PSI) Gopal Badane, accused of repeatedly raping the doctor, surrendered at the Phaltan Rural Police Station on Saturday evening, hours after the arrest of Prashant Bankar, a software engineer also named in the suicide note, from Pune.

Satara Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi confirmed Badane’s surrender. Bankar, accused of mentally harassing the doctor, was produced before a district court and remanded in four days’ police custody.

The doctor, a native of Beed district and posted at a government hospital in Satara, was found hanging in a Phaltan hotel room on Thu

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