Overview
- Rahul Gandhi spoke with the doctor’s family and pledged to press the government to constitute a Special Investigation Team, as state Congress leaders met the relatives in Beed.
- Congress in Maharashtra escalated its demands with calls for a High Court–monitored probe and the arrest of former BJP MP Ranjitsinh Naik Nimbalkar, who denies wrongdoing.
- Satara police said a relative submitted suspended PSI Gopal Badane’s mobile phone, which is being sent for forensic analysis, and the palm handwriting has been referred to experts.
- CCTV provided by the hotel shows the doctor arriving alone and no one entering her room, and the autopsy cites asphyxia due to hanging, according to officials.
- The family alleges the victim’s phone was unlocked with her fingerprint after death and data deleted, as MARD and local residents push for an independent SIT-led investigation.