‘Dr Death’ confesses to murdering six

Dr Santosh Pol from Wai spilled the beans on the multiple murders during interrogation in the case of 47-year-old anganwadi worker Mangala Jedhe’s death, following which police exhumed four bodies, apart from Jedhe’s, from his farmhouse on Tuesday night, Sandip Patil, Superintendent of Police, Satara told PTI. 

Pol, dubbed as ‘Dr Death’, is in police custody till August 19 after his arrest on August 11 for allegedly kidnapping and murdering Jedhe, president of Maharashtra Purva Prathmik Shikshika Sevika Sangh, on June 16. According to police, Pol and his aide Jyoti Mandre, a nurse who allegedly has an illicit relation with the accused, had kidnapped Jedhe and killed her by administering a lethal overdose of a medicine and buried her near Pol’s farm house. 

Apart from Jedhe, the other missing people, who were allegedly murdered by Pol, were Salma Shaikh, Jagabai Pol, Surekha Chikane, Vanita Gaikwad and Nathmal Bhandari, the SP said.