The accused software engineer from Pune, Prashant Bankar, who was arrested on Saturday in connection with the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old woman government doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, following the surrender of a co-accused, alleged that the doctor had harassed him by pressuring him to marry her and engage in a physical relationship, according to the police.

Bankar was one of the two men the doctor had mentioned in her suicide.

Bankar's sister stated, "Last month, my brother came to Phaltan to recover from dengue infection. The doctor treated him, and they exchanged numbers. Around 15 days ago, she proposed marriage to him. He turned down the proposal. During Diwali, she seemed tense, but we thought it was work-related. She was like family to us, and our mother treated h

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