A former associate professor of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences tried to commit suicide at her quarters on Monday morning.

The woman, in her early 30s, had accused IGIMS director Arun Kumar of sexually exploiting her but a lower court rejected her petition in May.

Sources said the woman cut the vein of her left wrist around 9am, but a doctor’s wife who lives in the same quarters spotted her and informed the IGIMS administration. She was rushed to hospital with the help of some staff and immediately operated upon. IGIMS doctors said her condition was stable.

Director Kumar said: “She is no more our employee so I am not at all concerned whatever happened to her.”

However, Krishna Gokhle, a doctor at the IGIMS surgery department who provided healthcare to her, said: “Her condition is stable now after the surgery. She had an injury but it was not serious.”

Manish Kumar, the deputy superintendent of police at Sachivalaya, said: “When the woman came out of the operating theatre, we tried to get her statement but she said she did not want to say anything to us. In the evening, we got a letter from the IGIMS director that earlier she had threatened to commit suicide and she attempted one on Monday. We will file an attempt-to-suicide case against her.”

Sources said the former associate professor was going through depression after being terminated from her post in the second week of June.

A doctor at IGIMS, on the condition of anonymity, said the woman turned more restless and sank into deeper depression after she was asked to vacate the official quarters. “She used to live in the quarters with her mother but the mother moved to Calcutta last month leaving her more stressed. When she could not handle stress, she tried to commit suicide on Monday morning,” said the doctor.

Another doctor said she had gone into serious depression after the lower court, where she had filed the petition of sexual harassment against the IGIMS director, dismissed her petition in May for lack of evidence. She had moved Patna High Court, challenging the lower court’s order last month.

“She had also challenged her termination in the high court but I have got to know from colleagues that she was not getting a date of hearing from the high court,” the doctor said.