Pune, April 4 -- A pregnant woman, Tanisha Bhise, died in Pune after being ''denied treatment'' due to lack of money by the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital here, her relatives alleged. The Pune District Collector has formed a three-member committee to investigate the matter, and submit its report in the next two days.

However, the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital denied the allegations of the pregnant woman family and termed the family's complaint as "misleading" and driven by frustration over the death.

The incident ignited protests and several women workers of the Pune BJP unit vandalised the private clinic of a doctor of the Mangeshkar hospital. The deceased woman's husband is the close associate of BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe.

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