The Mumbai Crime Branch has confirmed in its charge sheet that the suicide note retrieved from Dr Payal Tadvi's cell phone was written by her. The suicide note and witnesses statements are an important and direct evidence against the three accused doctors in the 1,203 pages-long charge sheet.

Dr Tadvi, a second-year student of the gynaecology department had hanged herself in her hostel room at the BYL Nair Hospital on May 22. Her seniors, Dr Hema Ahuja, Dr Ankita Khandelwal and Dr Bhakti Mehare, were accused of abetting her suicide and torturing her with casteist remarks. In the suicide note Dr Tadvi has said, "I hold Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehare and Ankita Khandelwal responsible for condition of my and Snehal (sic)." Snehal Shinde was a colleague of Dr Tadvi. In the three pages of the suicide note, Dr Tadvi has narrated everything she went through and held the three accused doctors responsible for her death.