The Special IG of Kolhapur range, Maharashtra, has dismissed the accused, suspended Police Sub-Inspector Gopal Badane, in connection with the Satara doctor suicide case, news agency ANI reported, quoting the police.
According to Maharashtra Police, Badane has been removed from service by Special IG Sunil Phulari. Earlier, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted to probe the Satara doctor suicide case, with IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute appointed to lead the investigation. Orders have been issued to commence the probe immediately.
The move follows instructions from Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to set up an SIT to investigate the Satara doctor suicide case, ANI reported.
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) be arrested in connection with the case.
The doctor, posted in Satara, was found dead in a hotel room. She had left a note written on her hand that named Badane and two others, officers said.
Badane was produced before the additional district and sessions court in Phaltan, Maharashtra, on October 26 and remanded in police custody.
Another accused has been arrested in the case.
A case was registered against the duo under charges of rape and abetment to suicide. Badane was suspended following his arrest.
Earlier, Fadnavis said that strict action would be taken against those who were guilty of the suicide of the woman doctor who worked at the sub-district hospital in Satara. He also said that politicising “such a sensitive issue is very insensitive.”
Satara doctor death: Maharashtra cop held in case sacked dismissed from service
Suspended Maharashtra Police sub-inspector Gopal Badane, an accused in the alleged suicide of a woman doctor in Maharashtra`s Satara district, has been dismissed from service, officials said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
Badane was arrested after the 28-year-old doctor was found dead in a hotel room in Phaltan town of Satara on the night of October 23.
While police called it a death by suicide, the doctor left a note written on her palm, alleging that Badane had raped her multiple times. In the same note, she had also accused a techie for physically and mentally harassing her.
The Satara police have said in a statement that Badane was accused of `unethical and indecent and irresponsible behaviour by misusing his position`. His actions were described as unbecoming of a police officer and detrimental to the public trust, it said, according to the PTI.
The statement also termed his actions `extremely disgraceful and condemnable`.
`Following the instructions of Special IG Sunil Phulari, Badane has been dismissed from the service under section 311 (2)(b) of Indian Constitution, effective November 4,` said Satara Superintendent of Police Tushar Doshi.
Section 311(2)(b) of the Constitution concerns the dismissal, removal, or reduction in rank of a civil servant, the news agency reported.
(With ANI inputs)
