Maharashtra's ‘doctor death' nabbed, confesses to killing and burying 6

Police suspect the doctor's lust for women could be one of the reasons behind the serial murders.

Satara

: A doctor from Maharashtra’s Wai town, arrested on Friday on charges of abduction and murder of a woman, confessed to killing at least six persons over the last few years by administering them lethal overdose of medicines, police said on Monday.

According to a report in The Pioneer, senior inspector of Wai police station said the doctor, identified as Santosh Pol, admitted to murdering five women and one man.

The Wai police recovered the bodies of five people from Pol’s farmhouse near Wai and are interrogating him for the whereabouts of the sixth body. Pol has told the police that he threw the sixth body in a dam.

At least five women were reported missing from Wai town since 2003.

Pol revealed about the details of his crimes during an interrogation into the murder of Mangal Jedhe, a 49-year old anganwadi worker. Pol with the assistance of a nurse had allegedly abducted Jedhe, president of Maharashtra Purva Prathmik Shikshika Sevika Sangh (MPPSSS), and later murdered her with the overdose of some medicines.

“Jedhe went missing after she threatened Pol that she would expose his shady activities. Our information is that she was abducted from the Wai bus station by Pol and his nurse Jyoti Mandre and taken to his farm house where she was killed after administering overdose of some medicines,” MPPSSS general secretary Shaukat Pathan said.

Police suspect Pol’s lust for women could be one of the reasons behind the serial murders, however they are yet to determine the real motive.