Amid the public uproar about the mishandling of the alleged casteist harassment of the late Dr Payal Tadvi, a recent case at the Government Medical College, Akola, can show the way for other medical colleges on how to handle such instances. MUHS Registrar Kalidas Chavan said the Akola case was among five reported to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in the academic year 2018-2019."

Three gynaecology students accused of ragging were rusticated in February before they got relief from the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on April 12, following which a fresh external probe may be instituted to rule out bias. In a four-page complaint to the dean on February 18, a first year gynaecology student's father allegedly accused three second-year students from Beed, Thane and Nagpur of causing severe physical and mental torture to his daughter ever since she was transferred to their Unit III.