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PUNE: Satara constabulary arrested a techie and a constabulary sub-inspector connected Saturday successful transportation with the alleged rape and abetment of termination of a 28-year-old doc employed astatine Phaltan subdistrict hospital. The member and sister of the techie told TOI that contrary to reports, helium was not arrested from a farmhouse successful Pune but from their location successful Phaltan aft being asked to surrender. “We had called him and told him to surrender. His societal media records and telephone details person been fixed to the police. My member ne'er called the doctor. Instead, it was the doc who utilized to telephone him repeatedly and harass him,” said the brother.
The doc had been paying a monthly rent of Rs 4,000 to the techie’s household and had been residing astatine the location for the past year. The techie’s younger sister said, “Last month, my member came to Phaltan to retrieve from dengue infection. The doc treated him, and they exchanged numbers. Around 15 days ago, she projected matrimony to him. He turned down the proposal. During Diwali, she seemed tense, but we thought it was work-related.
She was similar household to us, and our parent treated her arsenic her ain daughter.” Police said the arrested techie claimed that the doc had harassed him by insisting helium wed her and support a carnal relationship. “A ample fig of chats and telephone recordings betwixt the accused and the deceased person been recovered successful which she is speaking astir stress, pressure, etc” said a constabulary officer. A elder constabulary serviceman said the techie was arrested aboriginal successful the morning, portion the sub-inspector surrendered to Phaltan agrarian constabulary precocious astatine night.
Satara SP Tushar Doshi added, “A tribunal remanded the techie successful four-day constabulary custody till Oct 28.” The constabulary are besides probing whether the sub-inspector — who hails from Beed, the aforesaid territory arsenic the doc — had immoderate anterior narration with her. After the doctor’s suicide, a enactment was recovered connected her thenar naming the sub-inspector and the landlord’s lad arsenic liable for driving her to instrumentality the utmost step. Based connected this enactment and grounds specified arsenic WhatsApp chats, an FIR was registered nether Sections 64 (rape) and 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). SP Doshi said, “A pistillate ended her life, and determination mightiness beryllium immoderate information to her allegations. We are trying to found everything. It is simply a challenging lawsuit arsenic she had not complained earlier. Technical grounds and WhatsApp chats volition beryllium verified, but whether determination was immoderate blackmail space volition look done the investigation.”
