The SIT was formed after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s directive to the state Director General of Police to set up a special team to investigate the case

Maharashtra government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the Satara doctor death case, officials said, according to the ANI.

The 28-year-old government hospital doctor was found dead in a hotel room on October 23. Read More

A note written on her palm accused a police officer and two others of subjecting her to physical and mental harassment.

Police Sub-Inspector Gopal Badne and software engineer Prashant Bankar have been arrested on charges of rape and abetment to suicide.

IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute will head the SIT, and the team has been instructed to begin the probe immediately.

The development

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