3 min learnAhmedabadUp to date: Aug 11, 2026 01:55 AM IST
Surat Medical School has suspended 4 resident docs for six months for ragging a minimum of 10 first-year college students, one of whom died by suicide on Sunday (August 9).
The unanimous determination was taken at 4 am on Monday in a unprecedented assembly of the anti-ragging committee of the medical faculty, which is related to the New Civil Hospital and its Hospital Council.
4 school members, together with the Head of the Division of Microbiology, have been issued show-cause notices.
The choice was forwarded to Dr Jayesh Sachde, Further Director of Medical Schooling and Analysis, who was supervising the investigation into the matter, officers in Surat mentioned.
The ragging incident got here to gentle after Dr Harsh Pandya, a 29-year-old first-year PG Microbiology scholar from the Aravalli district of Gujarat, was discovered lifeless in his hostel room on Sunday. The investigation culminated within the determination taken earlier than daybreak on Monday.
A press release issued by the medical faculty on Monday morning mentioned, “Dr Nirali Vasave, Dr Anuj Maheshwari, Dr Dixit Ghewaria and Dr Hina Bhut have been suspended for six months for disciplinary and severe negligence and have been strictly ordered to vacate the hostel instantly and to not take part in any tutorial actions.”
The assertion additionally mentioned that “present trigger notices have been issued to 4 school members; Dr Sangeeta Rajde, Dr Yogita Mistry and Dr Latika Purohit, together with the top of the Microbiology Division”.
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“Your complete report of the Anti-Ragging Committee has been unanimously authorized by the School Council, and after a severe assessment, an official report has been submitted to the State Authorities early this morning to stop the recurrence of such reprehensible incidents sooner or later,” it mentioned.
Minister of State for Well being Praful Pansheriya had arrange a high-level committee on Sunday underneath the joint chairmanship of the Dean and Medical Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, primarily based on the criticism of 9 first-year resident docs and the daddy of the deceased.
The committee investigated the allegations by the 9 first-year PG college students from 8 pm on August 9 till 4 am on August 10, and issued the orders at daybreak.
Medical Superintendent Dr Parul Vadgama confirmed that the 9 first-year PG college students had, in writing, complained particularly in opposition to these 4 suspended resident docs, accusing them of psychological harassment, verbal abuse, and indecent behaviour.
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The Indian Specific additionally spoke to Police Inspector N V Bharwad of Khatodara police station, who mentioned that they’d filed an Unintentional Loss of life (AD) report within the case, and had been investigating.
When requested if additional authorized motion was imminent in opposition to the 4 suspended resident docs, Inspector Bharwad mentioned he was but to obtain the report of the anti-ragging committee and any additional determination can be taken after that.
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