‘Everything has become unbearable’: Mumbai doctor Payal Tadvi blames seniors for harassment in suicide note

The three accused were arrested in May and continue to remain in judicial custody. (File)

She said that she has not been able to understand what the accused had against her. “I have made this decision after trying everything out. I found out no one is there to stand for us, support us in this department. In fact, it is all our fault, we are at fault has been concluded,” she wrote.

Tadvi, a second-year student in the gynaecology department at civic-run Nair Hospital, was found hanging from the ceiling of her room on May 22. The original note was allegedly destroyed by the three accused after Tadvi was rushed out to the trauma room. The Mumbai Police crime branch found photographs of the three pages on Tadvi’s phone which has been annexed to the chargesheet filed earlier this week.

Tadvi, a resident of Jalgaon, wrote that she had chosen to become a gynaecologist as she was passionate about it. She also said that the accused harassed them in front of everyone, patients and staff, almost every day. “I am prohibited from handling labour room from last three weeks because they don’t find me efficient. I have been asked to stay out of labour room during OPD hours… they do not allow me to check patients, all I am doing is clerical work,” her note said.

Abeda Salim, mother of Dr Payal Tadvi, outside the BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai. (Express photo: Nirmal Harindran/File)

In the complaint filed by her mother, Abeda, she claimed that the three accused deliberately kept her daughter away from important work and gave her clerical work as a form of caste-discrimination. Dr Payal Tadvi belonged to the Scheduled Tribe, Tadvi Bhil.

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In the letter, Tadvi mentioned that despite putting all efforts, the condition was not improving and she had become ‘mentally disturbed’ and did not see any other way. She ended the letter with an apology to her parents and loved ones. “I don’t know how Snehal will cope up with these three. I am also sorry to leave you with them,” Tadvi’s last line of the note said.

The three accused were arrested in May and continue to remain in judicial custody. Their bail pleas will be heard before the Bombay High Court next week.