The BYL Nair hospital and TN medical college, where Dr. Payal Tadvi was a student, have received a rap on the knuckles from the University Grants Commission (UGC). An inquiry by the body has found them violating anti-ragging rules, thus leaving students vulnerable to harassment. Not only that, but the body also found their anti-ragging committee to be non-functional.

Officials associated with the inquiry remarked that had the college implemented the norms adequately, Dr. Tadvi could have been saved from taking such an extreme step.