An assistant professor, a woman scholar, and her mother have been booked for abetment to suicide after a court order in connection with the February death of a 24-year-old IIT Kanpur PhD student.
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Three senior doctors are set to face charges for the alleged suicide of Dr. Payal Tadvi at a Mumbai hospital. The accused are accused of caste-based harassment and public humiliation, leading Tadvi to take her own life. Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat emphasized the severity of the torture and its impact on Tadvi.
According to the Delhi High Court, openly humiliating and labeling the husband as impotent in front of family members constitutes mental cruelty. The bench, in its decision to allow the appeal, emphasized that the husband’s public humiliation due to the wife’s deliberate or unintentional actions in referring to his sterility as impotence cannot be ignored. […]
