Medico’s suicide: Three doctors sent to custody

Mumbai: A Mumbai Special Court on Wednesday remanded till May 31 three women doctors arrested in connection with suicide of medico Payal Tadvi, a law official said.
Bhakti Meher, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Nitin Satpute, lawyer for the Tadvi family, Nitin Satpute.
Arguing for the remand, Satpute told Additional Sessions Judge R.M. Sadrani there was a possibility of the case being one of murder since some injury marks were found on the victim’s body, including her neck and private parts, as per the preliminary autopsy report.
He said the alleged “ligature” marks, as mentioned in the autopsy report, pointed to Tadvi being killed and accordingly all the accused should be booked for murder.
The police also sought custodial interrogation of the three to know whether there was any suicide note left by Tadvi and if it was misplaced or hidden by them. The prosecution said the police had seized the mobile phones of the accused and they needed more time to recover their WhatsApp chat messages with the victim, among other things.
A second year Post-Graduate student of Gynaecology, Tadvi, 26, allegedly hanged herself in her hostel room on May 22. (IANS)