Payal Tadvi Suicide case: Bombay HC refuses permission to 3 accused doctors for completing PG

Replying to a suggestion made by the accused doctors'' counsel Aabad Ponda that the trio could be shifted to another unit of the gynaecology department, Thakare said it would not be possible as the staff, who are important witnesses in the case, are the same across all units.

Justice Jadhav accepted this statement and said permission to enter the Nair hospital premises to complete post-graduation course cannot be granted and disposed of the trio''s petition.

The high court had, in August 2019, while granting bail to the three doctors, directed them to not enter the civic-run BYL Nair hospital where the incident took place and had also suspended their medical licence till the end of the trial.

Read Also: Dr Payal Tadvi Suicide Case: 2 accused doctors exonerated by Maharashtra Human Rights Panel

Justice Jadhav on Friday said it was not right to have suspended their medical licences as this court did not have the jurisdiction to do so while hearing a bail plea.

The court noted that the Maharashtra Medical Council has already initiated inquiry into the issue and shall take appropriate decision on suspension of their licences.

Payal Tadvi, a second-year postgraduate medical student attached to BYL Nair Hospital, had committed suicide on May 22, 2019 inside her hostel room in the hospital premises.

Tadvi in her suicide note held the three senior women doctors responsible for her condition and for harassing her.

On May 29, 2019, the police arrested the three under IPC sections 306 (abetment to suicide) and 201 (destruction of evidence ) and provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.