India, Oct. 26 -- Two days after a 29-year-old government doctor took her own life, sending shock waves through Satara, Hindustan Times has learnt that the young medical officer was locked in a fierce standoff with the local police. Documents reviewed by Hindustan Times reveal that the doctor, with the Phaltan Sub-District Hospital, had filed numerous complaints naming several police officers, even as the police had filed counter-claims against her.

In a subsequent four-page statement to a committee investigating these charges, the doctor had documented instances of alleged harassment, but one detail will haunt her family and investigators - she wrote that she was being targeted due to her Beed connection and warned that "if anything hap...