Testimonies In Charge Sheet Show Doctors Warning The Trio About Their Abusive Behaviours Towards Juniors

Mumbai: The incessant alleged ragging case of Dr Payal Tadvi has been in the news for quite a while. The accused Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehare and Ankita Khandelwal have gained infamy from the case. The 1200 page charge sheet filed against the trio has several statements from the doctors of Nair hospital accusing them of bad behaviour, not just towards Dr Tadvi but towards every junior.

One of the doctors said he saw the trio harassing Dr Tadvi on multiple occasions. On being asked what they were doing to her, they asked him to not get in the middle of this. Another time, the doctor asked them to get their behaviour in check before something dire happens. He said, “Once when I saw a junior doctor leaving from the ward, I told both of them [Hema and Bhakti], if you don’t improve your actions, your juniors will commit suicide. Everybody knows what your behaviour is like; nobody’s going to side with you.

In November 2018, Payal had complained against them to the unit head but the trio struck back with a cross-complaint against her saying she was not doing her work properly.

Another doctor who has seen all three of them not behaving well, once told Dr Ching Ling, “Madam, both of us have completed our residency and both of us had juniors, but these doctors [the trio] don’t behave normally with their juniors.”

One of the witnesses also said that when Dr Tadvi’s news of suicide was out, everyone rushed to bring her body down from the fan, Dr Hema didn’t help. Instead, she texted the professor at the hospital, ‘Ma’am, their family has lodged an FIR against us for ragging. We are outside the dean’s office’.

Apart from the statements, the charge sheet also mentions that a grade four employee of the hospital had complained to their sister-in-charge about Dr Hema misbehaving with the nurses.

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