The Bombay High Court on Saturday granted permission to the Crime Branch to question the main accused in the Payal Tadvi suicide case even as they continue to be in judicial custody at Byculla jail.

Earlier this week the state forensic science lab (FSL) at Kalina retrieved the image of a suicide note from Tadvi's phone which has now been handed to the cops. On Saturday, during a hearing of the case the Crime Branch told the court that it suspected that the three accused—Hema Ahuja, Ankita Khandelwal and Bhakti Meher—destroyed the physical note that Tadvi left in her room at the time of the suicide. They have procured the CCTV footage which showed that after Tadvi's suicide, two of the accused had visited her room. On Saturday, the cops added section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the Indian Penal Code to the charges against the accused.