Vaishali Thakkar was suffering from stress-induced depression, hypertension and anemia, besides some digestive issues, reveals Dr Pranav Kabra

MUMBAI: According to the late Tv actor Vaishali Takkar’s co-worker and Mumbai-based friend, model Priya Soni, she was suffering from stress-induced depression, hypertension and anemia, besides some digestive issues, as revealed to her by Dr Pranav Kabra whom Vaishali had consulted over phone in September.

“I know Vaishali spoke to Dr Kabra a few times over the phone during the first half of September. She was feeling unwell and I had suggested she speak to the medical expert and she did that,” Priya said.

Dr Pranav Kabra of the Raksha Multispecialty Hospital in suburban Mumbai who refused to share any details regarding Vaishali’s medical condition, citing confidentiality between patient and doctor, however did say that Vaishali had stress-induced ailments and was not eating properly.

Priya Soni explained that she did not want to speak about Vaishali’s medical problems, “but it is time for me to speak up now for people to understand how much my friend suffered. Vaishali was so harassed physically and mentally by her ex-boyfriend Rahul Navlani that she was suffering from several stress-related ailments like hypertension, occasional irregular heart beat or cardiac activity, high blood pressure, higher than normal sugar, suicidal tendencies, depression and was also unable to digest her food properly,” Priya claimed.

According to Priya, Vaishali’s metabolic and digestive system was also affected by the extreme stress and on days she would go without eating properly.

“She had consulted several doctors and one of them was the diabetes and cardiac expert from Mumbai Dr Pranav Kabra who had advised her regarding her various problems,” Priya explained, adding that Dr Kabra suggested that she should some medical tests.

“I do not know in detail which tests were suggested, but the medical expert did recommend several things,” Priya explained.

“I do not know the exact details of the treatment and therapy but I know for certain that Dr Kabra had advised her to leave Indore and move to another city,” Priya said.

Indore-based businessman Rahul Navlani who was named as being responsible for driving Vaishali to suicide – along with his wife Disha Navlani, in a suicide note the actress left behind, was further remanded once again to four days police custody by a local JMFC court in Indore on Monday.

Last week after his arrest on Wednesday, the court sent him to four days police remand, which expired on Monday. When he was produced once again in the court, the cops were given an additional four days to complete their investigation.

The cops told the court that Navlani was not co-operating, was being evasive, giving false answers and asserted that they wanted to conduct various tests on Navlani to ascertain the truth, like brain mapping, narco analysis and a lie detector test. The court then extended his police remand by another four days.