Almost a month after the special court directed that Dr Ching Ling Yi, then faculty head of Nair hospital‘s gynecology department, be included as an additional accused in the 2019 Dr Payal Tadvi suicide abetment case, the complainant in the case — the victim’s mother, Abeda Tadvi — moved a plea seeking for her to be taken into custody.
Dr Yi’s defence lawyer, Ashish Chavan, opposed the plea. “We will contest the application since there is no mandate in law providing for ipso facto custody of accused when summons is issued to her in view of Supreme Court guidelines,” Chavan submitted. He will file a detailed reply on a later day. Chavan also submitted that a writ petition was filed in the Bombay high court against the trial court’s order. The court adjourned the matter to April 7 and directed the prosecution to submit a reply. tnn