Mumbai | One of the three key accused in Payal Tadvi’s suicide case of Nair Hospital in Mumbai has been arrested.
Dr Bhakti Mehare was arrested by the Mumbai Police today, in a big development to the case.
Mehare is allegedly one of the three who had harassed Dr Payal Tadvi.
Five days earlier, Dr Payal Tadvi, 23, a gynaecology student working as a resident doctor at BYL Nair Hospital, who had committed suicide.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) suspended the licences of four doctors – three senior medical students and a department head accused of abetting the incident.
The three doctors who are currently absconding, however, have written to Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) denied the charges and sought a fair trial.
“The three doctors – Dr Hema Ahuja, Dr Bhakti Mehar and Dr Ankita Khandilwal – and Dr Yi Ching Ling, professor and head of the unit, gynaecology department, are suspended until completion of inquiry. We will take a final call once the investigation into their role in the suicide is completed,” said Sunil Dhamne, deputy municipal commissioner (health), BMC.
The letter stated that due to the overload of work pressure, the students termed it as “ragging”.
Dr Ramesh Bharmal, dean of the hospital, said their letter was inconsequential and the accused will have to appear before the investigating committee.
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