Defying SC directive, docs continue protest

Agitating junior doctors defied the Supreme Court’s directive to join duties by 5 pm on Tuesday, saying that they would continue with their ‘cease work’ until their demands were fulfilled and the rape and murder victim of RG Kar Hospital was given justice.

Editorial: Enough is enough

The top court had on Monday directed the protesting resident doctors to resume work by 5 pm on Tuesday and said no adverse action shall be taken against them on the resumption of work. The court had passed the direction after the West Bengal Government assured it that no action, including punitive transfers, shall be taken against the protesting doctors on resumption of work.

“We will continue with the cease work as our demands have not been fulfilled. We had asked the state government to remove the Kolkata Police Commissioner, Health Secretary, Director of Health Services and the Director of Medical Education by 5 pm. We are open to discussion,” one of the agitating doctors said.

The junior doctors began their ‘cease work’ on August 9, hours after the body of the woman postgraduate trainee was found in RG Kar Hospital.

Meanwhile, former principal of RG Kar Sandip Ghosh was today sent to judicial custody till September 23 by a special CBI court in a financial irregularities case. The court also sent his security personnel Afsar Ali and two alleged associates — medical equipment vendor Biplab Singha and pharmacy shop owner Suman Hazara — to judicial custody till September 23.