Payal Tadvi

Payal Tadvi death: Forensic lab submits DNA analysis report to police; case doesn't seem to be homicide, says official

After Tadvi's autopsy report mentioned 'evidence of ligature mark over the neck', the counsel for her family, Nitin Satpute, alleged that she was killed.

Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi’s mothers move Supreme Court seeking end of caste bias in educational campuses

The mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, who had allegedly committed suicide following alleged caste-based discrimination, have moved the Supreme Court seeking to end such bias in universities

Payal Tadvi suicide case: Bombay HC grants conditional bail to three accused, pulls up Crime Branch for lacunae in chargesheet

Earlier on Tuesday, the high court had pulled up the Maharashtra government for delay in registering statements of key witnesses before the magistrate in the case.

Payal Tadvi case: Bombay High Court adjourns hearing of bail plea by three accused doctors for a week

The Bombay HC adjourned the hearing in the bail plea filed by three accused doctors in connection with the suicide of their junior Payal Tadvi at a government hospital for one week.

Payal Tadvi case: Photos of Mumbai doctor's suicide note found in her phone, mentions casteist abuses by three accused seniors

The post-mortem examination report of Payal Tadvi's death revealed the evidence of a ligature mark on her neck. Her family alleged that three of her seniors ragged and hurled casteist abuses at her, forcing her to take the extreme step.

Payal Tadvi case: Court rejects bail pleas of three doctors arrested for 'abetting suicide' of junior colleague

A special court in Mumbai rejected the bail pleas of three women doctors arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of Payal Tadvi at a civic body-run hospital.

'Casteism hidden behind white coats': Students, professors say medical field rife with bias against marginalised

Casteism in the medical fraternity is as deep-rooted as in any other part of society, says Brajesh Lahri, a medical student.

Payal Tadvi's suicide exposes how under-representation of Dalits, Adivasis, caste discrimination affect higher education institutes

The 'suicide' of Dr Payal Tadvi is the latest in a long list of lives taken by caste and institutional collusion against Dalits and Adivasis. The gross under-representation of Dalits and Adivasis at every level in institutes of higher education and ubiquity of caste-based discrimination in these spaces go hand in hand.

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'When we are constantly made to feel inferior, we internalise it': MBBS student from Tadvi Bhil community speaks up after Payal Tadvi suicide

Vijay Tadvi is a 19-year-old second-year undergraduate MBBS student at another college in Mumbai. Vijay, though unrelated to Payal, shares a similar socio-economic background and hails from the same district in Maharashtra.