Maharashtra: Doctor confesses to six murders by injecting lethal overdose
Mumbai: In a horrific incident, a doctor from Satara district of Maharashtra, who was arrested last week for murdering an anganwadi worker, on Tuesday confessed to killing five more people and burying most of their bodies at his farmhouse, according to police.
He also confessed that he killed them all by injecting a lethal overdose of medicine. Police suspect that illicit relations and greed for gold and money might have prompted him to murder the five women and a man.
Dr Santosh Pol (42) confessed to multiple murders as he was being interrogated for the death of Mangala Jedhe (47), president of Maha-rashtra Purva Prathmik Shikshika Sevika Sangh.
While the police exhumed five bodies from his farmhouse, one body which was thrown away in Krishna river remains untraceable. Arrested on August 11, Pol will remain in police custody till August 19.
Wai Police Inspector Vinayak Vetal, said, “On June 15, Mangala Jedhe, a resident of Wai, left Satara to visit her daughter Vidya Mhaskar in Pune. But she went missing in between. Following this, her husband Bhiku Jedhe registered a missing complaint with us. During investigation, their relatives informed us that before her disappearance, Mangala was in constant touch with Dr Santosh Pol,” said Vinayak Vetal, Police inspector, Wai.
