India: Suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi in a Mumbai hospital - Statement by PADS

PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY AND SECULARISM
4 June 2019 [updated on 5 June 2019]
An Adivasi Doctor Commits Suicide in India
(Public statement by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism on the suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi in a Mumbai hospital)
Dr Payal Tadvi, an Adivasi Muslim from one of the most backward tribes of India committed suicide on 22 May in her hostel room in a Mumbai hospital. She was a post-graduate resident doctor in the hospital. Many times before her suicide her mother and husband had given written representations to the hospital authorities about the harassment she had been facing from three of her seniors. According to these complaints, her harassers were using casteist abuses and publicly humiliating her. However, the hospital took no administrative actions. After her death, the hospital’s anti-ragging committee has reportedly found evidence of harassment, and according to some newspaper reports the police have found evidence of derogatory casteist remarks. [ . . . ] FULL TEXT AT:  http://www.sacw.net/article14117.html