Doctor Kills Herself Over Casteist Slurs From Seniors // Adivasi Professor Arrested For Facebook Post On Right To Eat Beef

Writers and activists are demanding justice after Payal Tadvi, a resident doctor studying gynaecology at the BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai, was found hanging in her hostel room on 22 May. Tadvi’s family has accused the hospital management of not taking action as she was being harassed by three senior doctors for belonging to a lower caste. “Whenever she used to speak to me on phone, she would say, ‘These three (senior doctors) people torture her as I belongs to a tribal community, use casteist slurs on her.’ We want justice for her,” Tadvi’s mother Abeda told ANI. Abeda Tadvi, mother of Payal Tadvi, a PG student of Gynaecology who committed suicide on May 22: Whenever she used to speak to me on a call, she would say 'these (3 senior doctors) people torture me as I belong to a tribal community, use casteist slurs.' We want justice for her

On 23 May, the Agripada police registered a case against Dr Hema Ahuja, Dr Bhakti Mehar and Dr Ankita Khandilwal under relevant sections of the IPC, SC/ST Atrocities Act, Anti-Ragging Act and Information Technology Act, 2000, the Hindustan Times reported. Abeda said Payal had called her crying about the harassment at the hospital. “On May 10, my daughter called me. She was crying and told me about the harassment she had been facing. I was rattled and wrote a complaint the same night. On May 13, I went to the dean to hand over the letter but we were not allowed to go in,” Abeda told HT. Abeda told NDTV that the hospital’s management had told the family they would look into the matter, but refused to give any assurance in writing.

However, the hospital’s dean Ramesh Bharmal denied the allegations and said they had not received any complaints. “Dr Payal’s mother’s claims that she had complained to the hospital about the alleged torture being meted out to her daughter are not true. We have received no complaint till date regarding this issue,” Bharmal told the news channel... read more:


Adivasi Professor Arrested For Facebook Post On Right To Eat Beef
Jeetrai Hansda, a professor at the Government School and College for Women, Sakchi, in Jharkhand was arrested on Saturday. A lawyer from the team handling Hansda’s case told HuffPost India that a complaint was filed against him in June 2017 based on a Facebook post he had written.

However, he was finally arrested yesterday. The lawyer, who did not want to be named, said he suspected the arrest was made after the elections were over so that the BJP did not anger the Adivasis and lose their votes before the polls. The BJP won 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand this year, same as 2014. The government at the state is also led by the BJP under Raghubar Das.
A diary was filed against Hansda’s Facebook post in 2017 and after ‘investigating’ the complaint, inspector Anil Kumar Singh of Sakchi police station lodged the FIR. Hansda’s lawyer said that though he was asked to appear in the police station, he wasn’t arrested back then. He was only arrested yesterday and continues to be in police custody. Hansda had also moved for anticipatory bail, which was rejected. Hansda is a prominent Adivasi activist and theatre artist and his Facebook post asserted his community’s right to eat beef.

The FIR lodged at the Sakchi police station in Jamshedpur, stated that Hansda had written a Facebook post asserting that the adivasi community in India has had a long tradition of eating beef and ceremonial cow sacrifice. It is their democratic and cultural right to consume the meat, he said. The post also said that they oppose India’s laws on eating beef and that his community also consumes peacocks, the country’s national bird. He also expressed his unwillingness to follow Hindu customs.
He was booked under sections 153 (A), 295A, 505 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for insulting religious feelings and attempts to promote enmity between groups of people. .. read more:
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/adivasi-teacher-arrested-for-facebook-post-on-right-to-eat-beef_in_5cea2349e4b00e03656f7163?zd?lskdls&utm_hp_ref=in-homepage

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