Maharastara doctor dies by suicide after MP and cops pressured her to falsify medical reports

The young doctor, who accused a police officer of rape before ending her life, had documented harassment and coercion from both the police and a Member of Parliament to falsify medical findings — a chilling glimpse into systemic abuse and silencing within state institutions.

A tragic death in Maharashtra’s Satara district has peeled back layers of political and police coercion, revealing how a young woman doctor was allegedly trapped between duty, power, and intimidation before taking her own life.

The 28-year-old doctor, who accused a police sub-inspector of repeated rape and a Pune-based techie of harassment, was reportedly under relentless pressure to falsify medical reports — from both the police and a sitting Member of Parliament.

The doctor had detailed these pressures in a four-page explanation to the District Medical Council, after police filed a complaint against her for allegedly declaring accused persons “unfit” for release during medical checks.

In her letter, she described a disturbing incident in which two aides of the MP stormed into the hospital, abused her, and issued threats after she refused to “release” an accused.

“They said, ‘The MP is angry,’ and pressured me to let the accused go,” she wrote. “When I insisted on following rules, they threatened me — ‘Dekh lenge (We will deal with you)’.”

Despite these clear red flags, no protective action was taken. Her relatives have alleged that the doctor’s repeated complaints to senior officers and higher authorities in June went ignored.

“There was immense police and political pressure on her to alter post-mortem and medical reports. She had tried to raise her voice. My sister deserves justice,” her cousin was quoted as saying by ANI.

A life cut short, a plea written on her palm

On October 23 night, the doctor was found hanging inside a hotel room in Phaltan town, where she was posted at a government hospital. On her palm was a suicide note — a desperate cry for justice, etched onto her skin.

She wrote that police sub-inspector Gopal Badane had raped her multiple times over the past five months, and that a software engineer, Prashant Bankar, had mentally harassed her.

“Badane raped me four times. He subjected me to rape, mental and physical abuse for more than five months,” the note read.

Following the revelation, the Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Office intervened, and sub-inspector Badane was suspended. A case has been registered against both Badane and Bankar under charges of rape and abetment to suicide.

Police confirmed Bankar’s arrest, while the officer remains absconding. “We are investigating all allegations mentioned in the suicide note and her prior complaints,” said a senior official.

Systemic silence and moral collapse

What makes this case particularly chilling is not just the alleged sexual violence — but the institutional silence that followed her complaints.

The doctor, described by colleagues as upright and principled, had become a target for refusing to bend medical ethics under political and police pressure. Her suicide has ignited outrage among the medical fraternity, which is now demanding a judicial inquiry into the nexus of corruption and coercion within state institutions.

Her aunt, still in disbelief said, “Just two days ago, she said she was being harassed by her seniors. We never thought it would come to this.”

As the investigation unfolds, the young doctor’s death has come to symbolize a larger, darker truth — of how integrity can become a liability when power, politics, and policing conspire to silence it.