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Transgender Patient Dies by Suicide at Nagpur Government Hospital

Police opened an accidental death case pending findings from their inquiry.

Overview

  • The 35-year-old, identified as Radhika Mohan Jadhav, died Thursday at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur, according to police.
  • Officers said she allegedly hanged herself from her hospital bed using a bandage cloth.
  • About a month earlier, she fell from a moving train and lost both legs after emergency surgery, police said.
  • Police said she earned a living by begging on trains, pointing to the precarity she faced before the accident.
  • Investigators registered an accidental death case, which in India is the standard first step for unnatural deaths that triggers a formal probe.