The agitating junior doctors withdrew their second round of cease work and began an indefinite fast instead demanding justice for their woman colleague who was on August 9 raped and murdered inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The doctors who started their fast from 9 pm on Saturday said that "initially six of us will be sitting on a fast."

The second phase of the doctors' movement started following frequent attacks on doctors at Sagore Dutta Medical College, Ramurhat Medical College, CNM Medical College in the past couple of weeks.     

Debashis Haldar one of their leaders said that "besides asking for speedy disposal of justice of Abhaya our colleague who was so brutally raped and murdered … we had also demanded removal of the Principal Health Secretary NS Nigam which the Government would not do … we had also demanded adequate security personnel …, installation of CCTV camera and of course timely general body elections to students' unions so that the ongoing threat culture and sexual exploitations perpetrated by the student leaders of the ruling party can be stopped … the Government can easily take these small measures but they would not do that as this will hurt their ego."

The doctors also said that a team representing them would soon visit the Kultali village where the brutal rape and murder of a minor girl had taken place on Saturday. "We are considering a visit to Kultali … soon we will visit that village and interact with the villagers so that their movement too gets stronger," one of the doctors said.

Meanwhile, to make the matter more embarrassing for the Government the senior doctors too offered to join the fasting protest. "We will also join them in a relay fasting," said Dr Subarna Goswami a senior doctor.