The Mumbai Police have confirmed that a purported suicide note, an image of which was recovered from the mobile phone of Dr Payal Tadvi was written by her itself.

The investigators reached the conclusion after analysing the handwriting on the three-page note with that of her handwriting samples provided by the family.

The suicide note, which the three accused had allegedly tried to destroy by deleting it from her phone. The note, in which Dr Tadvi had accused the three seniors of harassing her and using casteist slur was recovered by forensic experts from her phone.

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The three accused doctors Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Meher and Ankita Khandelwal who were arrested on May 29 had denied the allegations of casteist abuse and claimed that they had only pulled her up for not doing her work properly.

The cops on Tuesday filed a 1,800-page charge sheet against the three doctors for abetting the suicide.

The accused have been booked under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities).

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Dr. Tadvi, a second-year Postgraduate student, and resident doctor at Mumbai's Nair Hospital was found hanging in the hospital campus on May 22.

Her family had alleged that she was facing harassment from the three doctors over her caste.

Dr Tadvi belonged to the Muslim Bheel Tadvi community which is a Scheduled Tribe.

In the three-page note, Dr. Tadvi had mentioned two incidents where she was harassed by the three seniors.

On May 21 she was allegedly pulled up for putting photos on social media along with her friends. The three seniors told the victim that she had time to take photos but not for doing her job.

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The second incident happened just a day later in the hospital's operation theatre when Tadvi was insulted and shouted at by the three accused in front of other staff members for not doing her job properly.

Hours later Tadvi was found hanging in her room.

The charge sheet contains statements of over 150 witnesses, including the hospital staff, other doctors and a few patients who were witness to the three accused shouting at Tadvi.

The witnesses also include the victim's friends, who said the three accused had made remarks about Tadvi getting medical admission due to her caste.