The Bombay High Court on Thursday refused to give the Crime Branch full custody of three doctors accused of abetting fellow professional Payal Tadvi’s suicide.
A single Bench of Justice S.S. Shinde granted partial custody of Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehare and Ankita Khandelwal, all third-year resident doctors currently in judicial custody.
The court allowed the Crime Branch to have the doctors in their custody from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The case was transferred to the Crime Branch from the Agripada police station on May 30. The next day, the case was heard before the city civil and sessions court and the accused were remanded in judicial custody. The Crime Branch then did not get the opportunity to conduct their own probe, an officer said.
