The bullying that led this doctor to take her own life.

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▼ Three doctors have been arrested in India's Mumbai city amid allegations that their bullying of a young female colleague led her to take her own life. BBC Marathi's Janhavee Moole and Pravin Thakre report.
"I used to say I am Dr Payal's mother. But what do I say now?" Abeda Tadvi asks tearfully.
Her 26-year-old daughter, Payal, took her own life on 22 May after months of alleged harassment over her caste - she belonged to a Scheduled Tribe, a status given to historically disadvantaged tribes.
Payal's family has accused three of her seniors at the medical college - all women - of bullying her in the months leading up to her death.
Police arrested the three accused women on Tuesday and are investigating the matter, deputy commissioner of police, Abhinash Kumar, told the BBC. But they have denied the allegations in a statement published by the ANI news agency, saying they were being "unjustly" accused and demanded a "fair probe" and "justice".
Prior to the arrests, Nair hospital, where the women worked, had suspended them. The college had also launched an inquiry into the allegations.
Payal's death has shocked her colleagues and friends, who have been protesting in front of the hospital and demanding justice on her behalf. And it has shown the persistence of caste discrimination in an unlikely place - a college in Mumbai, India's financial hub and arguably its most urbanised city.
Payal was from Jalgaon in northern Maharashtra, the state where Mumbai is located. She married Salman Tadvi, who is a doctor in Mumbai, and moved to the city for a postgraduate medical degree.
She was studying to be a gynaecologist at Topiwala Medical College when she died. She had always wanted to be a doctor, her mother, Abeda, says. Her dream was to provide better healthcare for poor tribespeople.
She belonged to the Tadvi Bhil tribe, one of more than 700 Scheduled Tribes in India. Members of these tribes - who number around eight million, according to the last census in 2011 - are given "reservations" or quotas to rectify the wrongs of India's enduring caste hierarchies.
Payal was admitted to the college under the quota for Scheduled Tribes. Abeda says she was so proud of her daughter who had achieved so much despite their caste status and how poor they were.
"They taunted her for every small thing"
Abeda says that Payal had told her about the harassment she was facing from three of her seniors.
"She said they taunted her in front of patients for every small thing. They insulted her with slurs, threw files at her face. She said they did not even allow her to eat her meals in peace."
They also allegedly threatened to prevent her from practising medicine.
Abeda, who is being treated for cancer, would often visit Nair hospital, where Payal studied and practised because it is affiliated to her college.
She said she could rarely spend time with her daughter because she was always busy - so Abeda observed her from a distance.
"I saw the way she was being treated and decided to complain, but Payal stopped me," she said.
Payal feared that such a complaint would hurt the careers of the three women - and that they would end up harassing her even more.
But in December 2018, Abeda and Salman finally spoke to other seniors and professors about the harassment Payal said she was facing.
They demanded that Payal be allowed to work with a different team. She was reassigned, Abeda says, and she appeared a little relieved after that.
But, according to Abeda, the harassment soon resumed and around 10-12 May, Abeda herself filed a written complaint. "But this time they didn't take it seriously," she alleges.
Ten days later, Payal took her own life.
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There might be some suspicion of her sucide but but whole truth only be get to us after fair investigation not only by Police but also by Hospital authority...