Payal Tadvi's suicide: All 3 accused arrested, to be produced in court

Mumbai Police have arrested all three doctors for abetting the suicide of postgraduate medical student Payal Salman Tadvi their junior colleague at a staterun hospital here by harassing her over her social identityThe three accused doctors Bhakti Mehar Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandilwal had denied the charges levelled against them by Payals mother Abeda Tadvi who claimed that her daughter had committed suicide after being unable to bear months of torture by the trioOn Tuesday police arrested Bhakti Mehar from the Session Court in Mumbai and nabbed Hema Ahuja from the Andheri railway station According to the CrPC 46 4 with permission from the Sewadi Court Hema was arrested in the night police saidThe third doctor accused of harassing medical student Payal Tadvi was arrested by police on WednesdayAlso readMumbai doctors suicide Mom submitted took back detailed complaint 9 days before suicideAll the three accused doctors in the case Ankita Khandelwal Bhakti Mehre and Hema Ahuja have been arrested and are likely to be produced before the court today Mehre and Ahuja were arrested on TuesdayThe Agripada Police Station on Sunday had lodged cases against the three senior doctors including that of ragging IT Act Atrocities Act and abetment of suicide among othersThe three doctors Hema Ahuja 28 Bhakti Mehere 26 and Ankita Khandelwal 27 said in their bail plea that they were not even aware of the victims caste and had only professional interaction with herHours after they moved the court one of them Mehra however was arrested after initial interrogation by the policeThe trio attached to Nair Hospital at Agripada in South Mumbai has been booked under the SCST Prevention of Atrocities Act the AntiRagging Act and the IT Act and section 306 abetment to suicide of the IPCIn their bail application which is likely to come up for hearing on Wednesday the doctors claimed they had not caused any harm to the victim Dr Payal Tadvi 26 who allegedly hanged herself on May 22Also readMumbai doctors suicide Dean replaces unit head of gynaecology abruptlyThe three of them attached to the BLY Nair Hospital are accused of persistently harassing Payal Tadvi their junior who belonged to the Scheduled Tribe communityThe accused doctors have meanwhile written to the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors MARD to ensure a fair probe into the issue They have denied charges of harassment and ragging levelled against them by Payals family and have asked the doctors body to give them a fair chance to clear the allegations against themFurther their letter to MARD on Monday asks Guys we have been working together Do you really think we could do ragging and caste discrimination We just want you all to understand our side and help us get justice against these allegations which are levelledMeanwhile the National Commission for Women NCW has taken suo moto cognisance of the matter and written to the hospital administration requesting to appraise with the action taken in the caseThe NCW is deeply disturbedIt is a matter of serious concern NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma wrote in the letter addressed to hospital director Dr Avinas SupeOn Monday the Maharashtra State Commission for Women had issued a notice to Dean of the Hospital seeking a report on the action taken in the caseAlso readMumbai doctors suicide Did the accused remove her suicide note ask familyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get the latest updatesEdited by midday online desk with inputs from Agencies