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One accused in Dhule doc's beating commits suicide in custody

Police say he was around 22 years old and was the pillion rider with the patient who had sustained head injuries on Sunday

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(L) Resident doctors across Maharashtra hold protests, (R) Senior orthopedic resident doctor Roham Mamumkar who lost his left eye vision after being beaten up
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Pradeep Sadashiv Vetale, one of the accused in the Dhule case where a resident doctor was thrashed by relatives of a patient, hung himself in the toilet of the city police station in Dhule.

Police say he was around 22 years old and was the pillion rider with the patient who had sustained head injuries on Sunday. He was one of the nine arrested for thrashing senior resident doctor Rohan Mamunkar at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Dhule.

"He went to the toilet around 4.00 pm and hung himself using a bed sheet. Earlier in the day, he along with four others were presented in court on Tuesday and remanded to police custody," confirmed Chandrakant Gawali, additional superintendent of police in Dhule.

Meanwhile resident doctors across Maharashtra wore black ribbons and held protests in solidarity of the senior orthopedic resident doctor Roham Mamumkar, 28, who was beaten with rods after he asked family members of a patient with a head injury to take him to another centre since there was no neurosurgeon on duty. The incident took place on Sunday night.

Resident doctors from government medical colleges in Ambejogai, Pune, Latur, Mumbai and Nagpur joined the protest.

The entire incident captured on CCTV cameras has been going viral on the social media. The accused have been booked under Sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 353 (assault on a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

"Despite the Bombay HC passing an order last June to limit the number of relatives with a patient to two, the rule has not been implemented," said Dr Sagar Mandada, youth wing chairman of Maharashtra Indian Medical Association (IMA).

The doctor is clinically stable, although his left eye vision has been compromised," said Dr Yashvardhan Kabra, president, Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors.

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