Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Protesting doctors defy SC order, to continue strike
Kolkata: Junior doctors in West Bengal have decided to continue their 'cease work' in protest against the brutal rape and murder of a postgraduate medico at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, despite the Supreme Court's directive to end their protest by 5 pm on Tuesday.
According to the PTI report, demanding the resignation of the state’s health secretary and director of health education (DHE), the striking medics said that they would also take out a rally to ‘Swasthya Bhavan’ – the headquarters of the health department in Salt Lake – on Tuesday noon.
“Our demands are unfulfilled and justice is not meted out to the victim. We will continue our agitation as well as the ‘cease work’. We want the health secretary and DHE to resign. Tomorrow noon, we will hold a rally to the Swasthya Bhavan,” one of the protesting doctors told PTI after their governing body meeting here.
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The body of the postgraduate trainee was found with injury marks in a seminar room of state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. She was allegedly raped and killed while on duty. The incident has triggered nationwide outrage and protests.
The junior doctors have been observing ‘cease work’ at state-run hospitals for nearly a month now.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court directed the striking medics to resume their duties by 5 pm on Tuesday to avoid adverse action by the state government, news agency PTI reported.
The court passed the direction after the West Bengal government assured it that no action, including punitive transfers, shall be taken against the protesting doctors if they resume work.
