Navsari nurse ends life, alleges harassment by seniors

Navsari nurse ends life, alleges harassment by seniors

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Surat:23 10.2020 

A 28-year-old nurse ended life by hanging herself at her residence at Vejalpore town in Navsari district early on Thursday morning allegedly due to harassment by her seniors.

The deceased, Megha Acharya alias Megha Amit Khambhati, a resident of Moonlight apartment at Jalaram society was working as a staff nurse with the civil hospital in Navsari. Police said that Acharya had used her dupatta to hang herself with the ceiling fan at about 3 am.

Sources said that Megha had got married one-and-ahalf-year-ago with Amit Khambhati, a resident of Nanapondha village in Valsad’s Dharampur taluka.

Khambhati is working in a private company and stays with his parents in the village, while Megha was living in a rented apartment in Vejalpore along with her mother.

Police have recovered a four-and-a-half-page note from Acharya’s room. In the note, the deceased has levelled serious charges of harassment against her seniors at Navsari civil hospital. She has also named some of the staff in the note said police.

Sources said that Acharya had rendered exemplary service as a corona warrior during the ongoing pandemic at the civil hospital.

On Thursday, her family members refused to accept her body demanding justice and action against those responsible for forcing their daughter to take such an extreme step.

Talking with media persons, mother of the deceased, Minaxi Acharya said, “For a long time now, my daughter would come home and cry a lot. She would complain about her seniors harassing her in the name of work at the hospital. She was getting calls and messages from her senior at night. She was posted at the Covid ward for a few months and then shifted to the general ward.”

Deputy Superintendent of Police H K Rana told TOI, “We have recovered a suicide note from Acharya’s room. Prima facie it seems that the deceased was harassed at the workplace by her seniors. She has named few nurses in the note. Though her family life was disturbed, but there was no harassment from her in-laws.”