Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday spoke on phone to the family of a female doctor who allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra’s Satara district and assured them of support in their fight for justice.
Demanding justice, the family members of the female doctor asked Gandhi to put pressure on the government to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the death case.He said it has been a week since the doctor died and he fears evidence will be destroyed.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke to the woman’s parents and siblings over the phone of Congress’ Maharashtra unit president Harshvardhan Sapkal. Sapkal had gone to meet him in Kavargaon village of Beed district.
The Congress MP assured them that he would put pressure on the government to set up a SIT to investigate the death of the female doctor.
The 28-year-old doctor was found hanging in a hotel room in Phaltan town of Satara district on the night of October 23.
The postmortem report listed the cause of death as suffocation due to hanging, indicating that the doctor had committed suicide.
According to the police, a note was found written on the palm of the woman doctor in which she alleged that police sub-inspector Gopal Badane raped her multiple times while software engineer Prashant Bankar mentally tortured her. Both were arrested on 25 October.
According to the police, no evidence of forced entry was found in the hotel room, which does not indicate the presence of anyone else during the incident.
Relatives of the female doctor have demanded formation of an SIT. They allege that after his death, important data was erased from his mobile phone.
The uncle of the female doctor claimed that after her death, her phone was unlocked using her fingerprint and important information related to the incident was erased.
Residents of Wadwani in Beed called for a bandh on Tuesday and demanded a SIT investigation into the alleged suicide case.
