Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who met with the protesting doctors decided to give in to their demands and remove a section of Kolkata Police and state health department top brass.

Junior doctors in Kolkata are defying a court order to continue protests against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in the city. The discovery of the body of the 31-year-old woman on 9 August sparked nationwide outrage in India.

The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has cancelled the registration of Dr. Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, an official confirmed on Thursday. Ghosh, currently in CBI custody,

The WBMC removed Ghosh from its list of Registered Medical Practitioners on September 19 under provisions of the Bengal Medical Act, 1914.

For the first time in the 41 days since the junior doctors' agitation began on August 9, a significant portion of the protesters believes that returning to work while still demanding justice for their colleague’s tragic death at RG Kar Medical College is the best course of action.