India, Oct. 26 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called the suicide of a doctor in Maharashtra's Satara an "institutional murder" and said that he stands "firmly with the victim's family in this fight for justice."

Reacting to the suicide case of a 29-year-old woman doctor in Satara, Gandhi said that it was a "tragedy that shakes the conscience of any civilized society."

The doctor was found hanging inside a hotel room in Satara on Thursday night. She was posted there as a medical officer in a government hospital on contractual basis.

On her palm, she had written a note in Marathi alleging that she was raped four times by a local cop, identified as Phaltan City police station sub-inspector Gopal Badane, and that she suffered physical and...