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Satara’s ‘Dr Death’ Kills Six, Buries Bodies on Poultry Farm

Santosh Pol confessed to killing five women and a man over the past few years.

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Santosh Pol, a doctor based in Maharashtra’s Satara district (Wai town), has allegedly confessed to kidnapping and killing six people.

Pol ‘admitted’ to administering lethal doses of medicines to five women and a man between 2003 and 2016 and then burying them in his backyard .

Nicknamed ‘Dr Death’, his crimes came to light after police launched an investigation, when an anganwadi worker – Mangal Jedhe – went suspiciously missing.

Pol with his associates, including a nurse Jyoti Mandre, killed Jedhe who was allegedly the accused doctor’s lover.

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