Mumbai, Aug 16: In a shocking revelation, a doctor from Maharashtra’s Satara district has confessed to killing at least six people after he was arrested on the charge of kidnapping and killing an ‘aanganwadi’ worker.

According to the police, the accused Dr Santosh Pol revealed that he had killed five women and one man by administering lethal overdoses of medicines, IANS reported.

Pol was on Saturday arrested from Dadar in central Mumbai, following disappearance of 49-year-old Mangal Jedhe, President of the Maharashtra Purva Prathmik Shikshika Sevika Sangh (MPPSSS).

The police said that the investigations revealed that before leaving for Pune, Jedhe was in touch with Pol, and they had a bitter fight when she threatened to reveal his (Pol’s) alleged shady and criminal activities.

Pol and his associates, including nurse Jyoti Mandre, allegedly kidnapped Jedhe as she was waiting at the Wai bus depot, and took her to Pol’s farmhouse around 13 km from Wai. The following day, Pol and Mandre allegedly administered an overdose of a lethal medicine and buried the body at an isolated spot in the farmhouse, after she died.

The police said that Pol claimed he was in a relationship with Jedhe and Mandre, but since Jedhe was jealous of his affair with Mandre and threatened to expose them (Poland Mandre), they decided to eliminate her.

However, during the interrogation, Pol revealed that he had actually killed at least five women and one man in the past few years.

“Five women were buried at his country home, while one male victim’s body had been thrown into a local water reservoir,” he told.

Efforts to recover the other four bodies from Pol’s farmhouse.