Protesters took to streets in front of BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central to protest the suicide of a second-year post-graduate student, Payal Tadvi, pursuing Doctor of Medicine (MD) in gynaecology allegedly due to racial profiling and ragging. The protesters complained that the hospital administration was sitting ducks despite verbal complaints made by students and her family. Tadvi, who belonged to a tribal community, committed suicide last week as she was allegedly subject to regular caste harassment by three of her seniors. "SC/ST cell wasn't functioning properly in Nair hospital, so Payal did not know whom to complain further. Various sections related to the atrocity act, anti-ragging act and IT act have been invoked against them in the Agripada police station.

Source: dna May 28, 2019 00:33 UTC