<span style="color: #222222;">Two more doctors have been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a junior colleague, Dr. Payal Tadvi by tormenting her with casteist slurs at a state-run hospital in Mumbai. &nbsp;<br />'' <br />'' So far three were arrested in the case. The police said, Dr. Bhakti Mehere, was arrested yesterday after initial interrogation, the two other accused – Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal – were absconding.<br />'' <br />'' However, both Ahuja and Khandelwal were arrested in the early hours today by the Agripada police in central Mumbai. They are being produced in a court today.<br />'' <br />'' The three were booked after their junior colleague Payal Tadvi at B Y L Nair Hospital committed suicide at her hostel last week. Tadvi, 26, hanged herself at her room last Wednesday following which her family alleged that the doctors taunted her by ragging and hurling casteist abuses.<br />'' <br />'' The accused have been booked under relevant provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Anti-Ragging Act, the IT Act and Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.</span><br />
News On AIR | May 29, 2019 2:23 PM
Two more doctors held in Payal Tadvi's suicide case