Judicial inquiry. Enough proof of a fair probe. No administrative positions for the former principal and the present medical superintendent.

Junior doctors at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who are on a cease-work said on Monday their agitation would continue till these demands are met.

The state health department has removed the medical superintendent of the hospital and the head of the chest medicine department.

Sandip Ghosh resigned as the principal of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday. His resignation was one of the key demands of the protesting doctors. But the junior doctors said this was not enough.

“We still suspect there was more than one person involved in the rape and murder of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor. When we asked police officers on Sunday whether they felt there could be more than one person involved in the crime, they said they were not sure. So we are demanding a judicial inquiry,” said a postgraduate trainee at the hospital.

“Till all our demands are met, our cease-work will continue.”

Vineet Goyal, Calcutta’s police commissioner, and several other senior officers met some of the protesting doctors on Sunday.

The doctors are also opposed to the appointment of Bulbul Mukhopadhyay, who is the dean of student affairs at RG Kar, as the new medical superintendent and vice-principal (MSVP).

“As the dean of student affairs, she was responsible for the safety of the students. One of our demands from the first day of the protests was her removal from the dean’s position. But the government has elevated her and appointed her as medical superintendent,” said a junior doctor.

Calls to Mukhopadhyay from Metro on Monday evening went unanswered.

Ghosh, who resigned in the morning, was appointed the principal of the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital by the evening.

Some of the other demands of the protesting doctors at RG Kar are:

• Written apology by the (former) principal, dean of student affairs (present MSVP) and former MSVP
• Apology by Kolkata Police for assault on protesters
• Increased security in all healthcare facilities.

The protests and the absence of junior doctors from the emergency department as well as ward duty crippled services at RG Kar hospital.

Many patients arrived at the hospital on Monday but they were denied treatment.

The family of a 70-year-old man, who suffered a stroke, had to go back from the trauma centre as there was no doctor to treat him. “We are now going to Sagore Dutta hospital (in Kamarhati). There is no doctor here,” said a family member.

An official at RG Kar hospital said senior doctors, who are faculty members, were running the services in the absence of junior doctors.

The junior doctors said they were forced to stop all work as no one was listening to their grievances.

The junior doctors said they did not support the way an intern of the medical college was being defamed. An audio clip of a conversation between two persons was circulating on social media where one was telling the other that someone in their batch could be involved in the crime.

The number of protesters swelled on Monday as hundreds of medicos from other medical colleges gathered at RG Kar hospital. Students from Presidency University, too, went to RG Kar and pledged their support to the protests.