‘Arrest Dr Tadvi’s Harassers Now!’ Demand Protestors

Friends and family of 27-year-old Payal Tadvi protested at the state-run hospital in Mumbai where she worked.

Friends and family of 27-year-old Adivasi doctor Payal Tadvi protested at the state-run hospital in Mumbai where she worked. She was found hanging in her room that she shared with three other students, on 22 May at around 7:30 pm

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Friends and family of 27-year-old doctor Payal Tadvi, who ended her life allegedly after harassment and casteist slurs by her senior colleagues, launched a protest at the state-run hospital in central Mumbai where she worked.

Other protesters also joined Tadvi’s mother Abida and husband Salman who 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’.

Protesters included Students from Nair hospital and various other medical colleges across the city are holding protests outside the BYL Nair Hospital here over Tadvi's death.

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.

The three women doctors at the hospital accused of driving Tadvi to suicide wrote to the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), demanding a ‘fair probe’ in the case.