The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police will now probe the alleged suicide committed by doctor Payal Tadvi.

The crime branch, Deputy Commissioner of Police Manjunath Singte said that considering the seriousness and importance of the case, the investigation has been transferred to the Crime Branch.

Tadvi’s lawyer Nitin Satpute said the decision came after they demanded that the case be transferred to the CBI or the crime branch as they felt it was not properly investigated by the Agripada police in Mumbai. Satpute also said that Payal’s family suspect it to be a case of murder,   and demanded the case to be transferred to some other probing agency.

Meanwhile, three women doctors – Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal – were earlier arrested after their 26-year -old junior colleague Tadvi at the B Y L Nair Hospital here allegedly hanged herself at her hostel room last week. They have been remanded in police custody till Friday. Tadvi’s family alleged that the doctors taunted her by ragging and hurling casteist abuses.