India, June 13 -- Sejal Pawar has been sent to 15-day forced leave after Mumbai's KEM hospital launched a probe against her over her remarks on 'male corpses' made during stand-up comedian Pranit More's show. Pawar is a medical student at KEM hospital.

While the forced leave is an interim decision, a larger five-member committee has been constituted to take a final decision within a week's time, HT has learnt.

Earlier, on Friday, a fact-finding committee constituted by the Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital in Parel found certain remarks made by Pawar, a final year MBBS student, to be "objectionable and insensitive".

The comments fell short of the dignity, empathy and professional responsibility expected of a medical student, the...