Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a 23-year-old post-graduate student of medical science, Payal Tadvi of Nair hospital in Maharashtra state capital committed suicide after facing torture by her senior from long time.
Dr Payal Tadvi was allegedly bullied by three senior doctors just because she was from a Scheduled cast community. After being badly torture by her seniors Tadvi took this extreme step.
As per our sources, it is said that special provisions were given to minorities in our country for convenience of weaker section than why such kind of incidents continue to exist.
The Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday called death of Dr Payal Salman Tadvi as “A murder of the protection given to the Scheduled Tribes.”
According to sources, Payal was a medical student in Mumbai and she belongs to scheduled tribal community.
“The suicide of the brilliant Dr Payal Tadvi belonging to the scheduled tribal community is a result of comments against her caste and the reservation system. This is a case of murder. It is a murder of the protection given by the constitution. Is this the direction the country is heading towards?” This statement was twitted by Yadav.
Medical student of backward class Payal Tadvi commits suicide over torture:
Tadvi was 23 year-old and a postgraduate student at Nair hospital in Mumbai. She ends up her life on May 22.
Payal was allegedly harassed by three senior doctors. They used to comment on her caste. And that’s how she forces herself to take such a big step after being mentally torture.
As per our sources, a notice has issued by Maharashtra state commission for women to Dean of BYL Nair Hospital seeking report on action taken in case.
According to Dr Tadvi’s mother Abeda she was continuously tortured by three senior doctors- Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehar and Ankit Khandilwal.
Abeda’s stated that “whenever she used to speak to me on phone, she would say ‘these (three senior doctors) people torture me as I belong to a tribal community, use cattiest slurs.’ we want justice for her”.
As soon as BYL Nair Hospital administration came to know about Abeda’s statement, it formed an anti-ragging committee to dig into Payal’s suicide case.
These three doctors have been suspended by Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD). They wrote a letter to association, pleading them to fairly probe the issue. Nair Hospital Student commits suicide on being ragged for her caste.
