Santosh Pol (born November 4, 1974) is an Indian

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doctor who confessed to killing six people from 2003 to 2016 in the town of Dhom,

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, allegedly by injecting them with

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, a neuro-muscular paralytic drug. He was dubbed Dr. Death by the media for the incident. The names of his victims are Mangala Jedhe, Salma Shaikh, Jagabai Pol, Surekha Chikane, Vanita Gaikwad and Nathmal Bhandari.

In popular culture

In the 2020 Marathi television series ''

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'', Kiran Gaikwad's character called ''Dr. Ajitkumar Dev'' is mainly based on Santosh Pol's life.

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