Mumbai: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed to probe the Phaltan doctor suicide case.

IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute will lead the SIT. Orders have been issued to begin the investigation immediately.

This comes a day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to form an SIT to probe the Satara-Phaltan doctor suicide case.

The opposition parties have been demanding a high-level probe into the doctor's death case. The opposition had also earlier demanded that former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ranjeetsinh Naik Nimbalkar, son of former Shiv Sena MP from Satara, Hindurao Naik Nimbalkar, be arrested in connection with the case.

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However, Fadnavis gave a clean chit to Nimbalkar on October 26 as he visited Sa

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