India, June 14 -- Sejal Pawar, the final year medical student whose remarks on a comedy show triggered outrage both online and offline, has been sent on leave for 15 days. A student of the Seth GS Medical College attached to KEM Hospital, Pawar had said she and her colleagues would compare the sizes of male cadavers' genitalia.

Pawar, who was living in the college hostel, was summoned before an inquiry committee appointed by the hospital on Saturday to record her explanation. The panel, which then reviewed her statement, told her to proceed on leave. She was "entrusted to the care and suspension of her parents/guardians during the interim period," according to a statement from the hospital.

A five-member inquiry committee, comprising se...