Civic body worker, who exhumed Dr. Death’s victims in Wai, dies

August 24, 2016 11:29 am | Updated 11:29 am IST - Pune:

A municipal worker of Wai, who had worked with the police to exhume the remains of the victims of alleged serial killer Santosh Pol, died of a massive heart attack on Monday.

Subhash Vitthal Chakke (49), who helped exhume the bodies of six victims from Pol’s farm plot in Wai, was admitted to a local private hospital on Sunday after he complained of uneasiness, sources said. He died after a cardiac arrest the next day while under treatment.

‘Shock and stress’

His wife, son and two daughters joined their kin to allege that his death was due to the ‘shock’ and ‘stress’ of retrieving the bodies. The family claimed that Chakke died as a result of the “arduous and unpleasant nature of the task.” The Satara police had sought the services of a five-member team of Wai Municipal Corporation to exhume the bodies from the two-acre farm of the alleged killer in Dhom village, 10 km from Wai.

Chakke was with the municipality for nearly 25 years. His son has been offered a job in the civic body, said official sources.

Pol has confessed to killing six persons, including five women, during a 13-year period between 2003 and 2016.

His police custody has been extended to August 25.

The medical fraternity here is astounded that Pol, with no formal MBBS degree, could operate undetected for so long. The disappearance of ‘aanganwadi’ worker Mangal Jedhe on June 16 led to his arrest.

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