The junior doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and other medical colleges remained defied the Supreme Court order by refusing to join hospital duty by 5 pm on Tuesday a deadline that had been set by the Court on Monday. Instead of following the Apex Court order the junior doctors who have, for nearly a month, been observing 'cease work' at State-run hospitals, in protest against the rape and murder of an on duty  lady doctor inside the RGKMCH set a counter deadline for the State Government to force the resignation of the Health Secretary and Directors of Health Education (DHE) and Health Services for their alleged complicity in tampering of evidence in the place of occurrence. “The DHE and DHS had signed the circular along with the Principal allowing the part demolition of walls adjacent to the seminar hall and the attached washroom … so they should immediately resign to facilitate impartial inquiry,” doctors said.

Thousands of doctors on Tuesday marched to the Swasthya Bhavan and was still staging a sit-in demonstration in support of a five-point demand that included justice for the victim doctor, proper infrastructure and security set up in all the government hospitals apart from resignation of the top Health officials who had circuitously “allowed a syndicate raj to perpetrate in the Health sector.”  It is not only the doctors but the people along with them who have descended on the streets to press for the demand of justice for Abhaya who this is because the Government does not seem to be willing to keep its words … by punishing the real culprits of the health syndicate and threat raj in the Government Health sector of which the rape and murder of one of our colleagues was a foregone consequence,” said Dr Tathagato Das one of the protesting doctors. Another doctor said that the “demands of the doctors have not been fulfilled and justice not meted out to the victim… to make things worse the State Government has not shown the right intention to give justice and improve the atmosphere in Health sector which was evident by the false and fabricated facts that it allowed to be dished out before the Supreme Court by its lawyers … remember how the Government counsel was being paid tens of lakhs of rupees to tell lies and mislead the Supreme Court resulting in the disappointing order of Monday.

A third doctor said that the “cease work will continue till our demand is met … if it is met in five minutes … if some responsible officer from the Government comes out and gives a written assurance of the measures that would be taken within a time a frame we will go back to work or else it will not be possible to do so.”

The Supreme Court had on Monday asked the doctors to return to work providing them immunity from any government action till 5 pm on Tuesday.

Following this State Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee too had requested the doctors to join work saying she was not willing to take action. The doctors also questioned the “good intention” of the investigating agencies like the police and even the Central Bureau of Investigation wondering why the central Agency would not ask for an extended remand for arrested former principal of the RGKMCH Sandip Ghosh who was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody.

In surprising move the CBI counsel would not seek extension of Ghosh's remand though it told that it was in possession of a large number of digital and documentary evidences in the case.

“The CBI has already secured large amounts of digital evidence on the alleged crime. We need time to analyse that evidence. We do not need the accused in police custody immediately. But we may seek their custody again later, if required,” the CBI counsel told the Court with the Judge asking back as to how the CBI could assume beforehand that it would get Ghosh's custody back when it returns with such application.

Meanwhile chaotic scenes were witnessed inside the Alipore Court premises where Ghosh was produced with the junior lawyers, particularly women advocates resorting to slogan shouting demanding “Justice for the victim.”

Even as some shouted “thief … murderer” some threw sandals at him while he was whisked out of the Court towards the prison van. The lawyers asked, “why the CBI refused to seek extension of his remand … why he was accorded a VIP status inside the court by the police.”