India, Aug. 11 -- Four second-year MD Microbiology residents at the Government Medical College in Gujarat's Surat, were suspended for six months on Monday after an Anti-Ragging Committee found that they allegedly ragged junior doctors, a day after a first-year resident doctor was found dead in his room at the postgraduate hostel on the New Civil Hospital campus.

According to a government release, no suicide note was found, but statements of fellow students indicated that the deceased doctor had faced repeated mental harassment and torture by senior doctors.

Civil Hospital superintendent Dr Parul Vadgama said, the four suspended doctors, including three women, have been ordered to vacate the hostel and stay away from academic activities ...