India, Oct. 26 -- Following the arrest of the two accused named in the suicide note of a Maharashtra doctor, the family of Prashant Bankar - one of the two held - has claimed that he was in a romantic relationship with the medic before her untimely death.

HT reported earlier that police officials involved in the probe stated that the two had been close for several months, but tensions erupted after their relationship reportedly soured.

The 29-year-old doctor, working at a Maharashtra government-run hospital in Satara allegedly died by suicide on Thursday.

In a suicide note written on her palm and a four-page letter, the doctor accused sub-inspector Gopal Badane of raping her multiple times and Bankar of mentally and physically harassin...