Whenever his phone rings in the evenings, Dr Salman Tadvi still thinks it's his wife Dr Payal Tadvi's call. "Every day, my phone rang around 8 pm asking me where I was, etc. Her voice is still fresh in my ears. I can't believe it has already been a month since she left me," Dr Salman says of life without his better half who committed suicide last month.

The grieving husband has also questioned the delay in investigating Dr Payal's suicide and the events that led to it. "Due to the uproar around her death, all the accused were arrested and put behind bars but even after 30 days, the cops haven't been able to make a firm claim about the sequence of events on May 22," he said. Dr Payal was pursuing her MD (Gynecology) at the Nair hospital. "She would not have enough time to spend with me. We had odd duty hours and getting to see each other was a rarity. She had opted to stay in the hostel room so she could save time travelling to our rented apartment," he explains.