Overview
- IPS Tejaswi Satpute, commandant of the SRPF in Pune, has been directed to take immediate charge of the Special Investigation Team and submit regular progress reports to the DGP.
- Police Sub-Inspector Gopal Badane and software engineer Prashant Bankar are under arrest on charges including rape and abetment to suicide, and Badane has been suspended.
- The 28-year-old government doctor from Beed was found dead on October 23 in a Phaltan hotel, with a note on her palm alleging repeated sexual assault by Badane and mental harassment by Bankar.
- Political scrutiny continues as Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis earlier gave former BJP MP Ranjitsinh Naik Nimbalkar a clean chit, even as opposition leaders call for a broader, transparent probe.
- New claims and counterclaims have emerged, with Minister Jaykumar Gore referring to a 'serious triangle' from phone chats and the Satara SP declining that characterization, while activists and medical associations press for accountability.