India, March 21 -- Noted city gynaecologist Dr Ching Ling Yi has moved the Bombay High Court, challenging her recent addition as an accused in the high-profile Payal Tadvi suicide case, even as Payal's mother has moved a plea before the Sessions Court, seeking directions that Dr Ling be taken into custody.

Dr Ling, currently with the Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (GSMC) attached to the civic-run KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was Payal's head of department when the 26-year-old died by suicide allegedly due to caste-based harassment on May 22, 2019. Payal was a second-year resident doctor pursuing a post-graduate degree at the Topiwala National Medical College attached to the BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai, when she died by suicide in t...