India, Oct. 26 -- One of the two men allegedly linked to the death by suicide of the 29-year-old Satara doctor has been arrested, while the other, a police officer, is still at large. The doctor, posted at the Phaltan Sub-District Hospital, was found hanging in her hotel room in Phaltan on Thursday.

In a suicide note inscribed on her hand, she accused Prashant Bankar of physical and mental harassment, and police sub-inspector Gopal Badne of sexual assault and rape. Police arrested Bankar, a software engineer and son of the doctor's landlord, from a farmhouse near Pune on Friday night. According to the police, the doctor and Bankar were romantically involved months before her death.

The case has triggered outrage across Maharashtra after...