{"id":312681,"date":"2019-05-29T05:15:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312681"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:31:55","slug":"all-3-mumbai-doctors-accused-of-driving-junior-to-commit-suicide-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/all-3-mumbai-doctors-accused-of-driving-junior-to-commit-suicide-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"All 3 Mumbai doctors accused of driving junior to commit suicide, arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312682 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/payal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/payal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/payal-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/payal.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The third doctor accused of driving a postgraduate medical student to suicide was arrested by police on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Dr Ankita Khandelwal was arrested by Mumbai Police and will be produced before a court. The other doctors, Hema Ahuja and Bhakti Mehre were arrested on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the three accused doctors in the case were arrested and are likely to be produced before the court on Wednesday, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Payal Tadvi, who worked at BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai, hanged herself on May 22 allegedly after facing caste slurs from her senior doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the three doctors are accused of harassing and using casteist slurs against their junior Tadvi which drove the latter to commit suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to the hospital administration, requesting to appraise it with the action taken in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The family of the deceased has accused all the three doctors of harassing their daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three doctors have been charged 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 (IPC).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third doctor accused of driving a postgraduate medical student to suicide was arrested by police on Wednesday. According to the sources, Dr Ankita Khandelwal was arrested by Mumbai Police and will be produced before a court. The other doctors, Hema Ahuja and Bhakti Mehre were arrested on Tuesday. All the three accused doctors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":312682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[11417,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312683,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312681\/revisions\/312683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}