India, Oct. 29 -- Fresh CCTV footage from a hotel in Maharashtra's Satara district has confirmed that the 28-year-old woman doctor, whose death last week triggered widespread political outrage, checked into the lodge alone on the night she died, contradicting claims that she might have been coerced or murdered.

The footage, released by the hotel owner, shows the doctor entering the premises by herself and completing the check-in process shortly after leaving software engineer Prashant Bankar's residence, where she had attended a Lakshmi Puja on October 23.

Both men have since been arrested on charges of sexual assault and abetment to suicide.

In response, the hotel owner released the footage to local authorities, asserting that no one ...