Police on Tuesday said they had found bodies of five of the six people murdered by self-confessed medico Santosh Gulabrao Pol in Maharashtra.
Solapur Range Inspector General of Police Vishwas Nangre-Patil and Satara SP Sandip Patil said that following the revelations by Pol, police dug his poultry farmhouse premises and discovered the remains of the five bodies.
Charged with kidnapping and murdering an 'aanganwadi worker' Mangal Jedhe, on June 16, Pol admitted to committing six murders, including that of a man, after administering them lethal overdose of some medicines, earning him the sobriquet 'Dr Death'.
Pol's associate, nurse Jyoti Pandurang Mandre, has also been arrested. Both have been sent to police custody.
Pol was also functioning as a police informer on corruption cases against Government officials, said Nangre-Patil.
Nangre-Patil added that a probe would be conducted why the local police were scared of taking action against the accused pair if they had information about suspicious happenings at the farmhouse.
Police are trying to trace the body of a woman whose body was thrown into a water reservoir.