Doctor Payal Tadvi suicide: Police detains one of the three doctors accused of harassing junior

The three doctors have been booked under the Atrocities Act, the Anti-Ragging Act and the IT Act and Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the IPC.

Tadvi committed suicide on May 22 and her family has alleged that the doctors taunted her for belonging to a Scheduled Tribe. / ABP NEWS GRAB

Mumbai: A day after parents of 26-year-old doctor Payal Tadvi protested at the state-run hospital in Mumbai where she worked, one of the three doctors accused in the case was detained by the police. Accused Bhakti Mehere is one of the three senior doctors against whom an offence was registered after 26-year-old Payal Tadvi committed suicide on May 22. The two other accused doctors - Ankita Khandelwal and Hema Ahuja - have moved an anticipatory bail application before the session court.

Payal Tadvi suicide case: One of the three doctors accused in the case has been detained. More details awaited.

— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2019

Tadvi committed suicide on May 22 and her family has alleged that the doctors taunted her for belonging to a Scheduled Tribe. The three doctors have been booked under the Atrocities Act, the Anti-Ragging Act and the IT Act and Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the IPC. In the case, the Head of the Gynaecology department, BYL Nair Hospital suspended. The National Commission for Women also wrote to the director of BYL Nair Hospital requesting for an investigation and apprise the commission of action taken in the case. The Maharashtra State Commission for Women has also taken cognisance of the matter and issued a notice to the hospital authorities demanding a reply within eight days on the action taken to implement the anti-ragging law. During a protest, Tadvis mother Abeda and husband Salman demanded "strictest action" against the three seniors who allegedly drove her to end her life by "torturing her by ragging and hurling casteist abuses at her.

Dr Salman, Payal Tadvi's (who committed suicide on May 22 after facing harassment at the hands of 3 senior doctors) husband: We want govt to intervene, police is not taking any action. It is possible Payal was murdered by the 3 women doctors. #Mumbai pic.twitter.com/oYPt3ki8Cl

— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2019

The three women doctors at the hospital accused of driving Tadvi to suicide have also sought a "fair probe" in the case. In a letter to the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), the three Ankita Khandelwal, Hema Ahuja and Bhakti Mehare said they want the college to conduct a fair investigation in the matter and "give justice" to them. "This is not the way to do an investigation through police force and media pressure, without hearing our side," the three doctors said in the letter.

Payal Tadvi,student of BYL Nair Hospital,suicide case: 3 accused doctors write to Maha Assn of Resident Doctors, state "We want college to conduct fair investigation. But this isn't the way to do investigation through police force&media pressure without listening to our side..." pic.twitter.com/pNAjJRswND

— ANI (@ANI) May 27, 2019

MARD has suspended the three doctors. We have credible inputs that the three doctors made casteist remarks against Dr Payal Tadvi, who allegedly committed suicide. We will cooperate with the police for further investigation, a senior MARD official said. (agency inputs) WATC: Payal Tadvi Suicide Case- Family & junior doctors hold protest in Mumbai