A doctor from Satara, Maharashtra, Santosh Pal, was arrested earlier this week after he confessed to killing six people with overdoses of unprescribed medicines, reported The Indian Express. Pol said he killed five women and a man in Wai, a small town at the foothills of Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani. He was arrested on August 13.

His crimes came to light while investigators were looking into the disappearance of a local woman who had differences with Pol. Mangal Jedhe, president of the Maharashtra Purva Prathmik Shikshika Sevika Sangh, disappeared after she left the town to meet her daughter in Pune. The police said Pol and his assistant, nurse Jyoti Mandre, abducted the 49-year-old woman while she was waiting for a bus. They took her to the doctor's farmhouse, around 13 km from the town. There, they killed her with high doses of a lethal medicine, and buried her inside the property.

Pol said he was having affairs with Jedhe and Mandre. The former got jealous and threatened to reveal all his criminal activities, hence, the duo decided to kill her. He also told his interrogators that he buried the bodies of four other women he killed in the same property. He said he has killed a man as well in the past few years, but disposed of his body in a local reservoir. Local authorities said some of the victims were missing since 2013, reported NDTV. It is still not clear why he committed the crimes, but the police said Pol's actions were likely driven by money.