• Facing protests, Sandip Ghosh has been asked to go on leave, directs Calcutta High Court

The students-junior doctors at the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital have made it clear that they did not want the “garbage” of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the reference to its immediate past principal Sandip Ghosh.

They have been protesting at the gates of the CNMC since Monday when the state health department had issued a notification, appointing Ghosh as the principal of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital where he had earlier served as the medical-superintendent and vice-principal.

On Tuesday, Trinamul leaders Swarnakamal Saha and Javed Ahmed Khan, emissaries of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, had to return from the hospital empty-handed after the protestors refused to budge from their stand.

“This is our second home. We are away from home. We don’t want a guardian like him. How can you allow such a person here?” a female junior doctor was heard asking the two Trinamul leaders, who were forced to return after more than an hour-long sloganeering of “go-back”.

On Monday morning chief minister Mamata Banerjee had made clear that despite his resignation Ghosh would not be allowed to leave the service and was being sent elsewhere. The evening notification cleared the air that Ghosh was being sent back to his former work place.

About 500 students, interns and doctors held a meeting on Monday night and decided to be on vigil against Ghosh’s arrival.

Ajoy Roy, the principal whom Ghosh replaced, arrived at CNMC this morning and sat in front of the gate. The protesting junior doctors stood around him and with their slogans made it clear they did not want Ghosh at their institute.

A 31-year old postgraduate trainee of the chest department at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was found murdered with brutal injuries across her body on Friday morning.

Since then the Calcutta Police’s special investigation team has arrested a civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, while many others including interns and trainees who were at the ward on the night of the brutal attack.

The family members of the murdered doctor have approached the Calcutta High Court seeking a judicial inquiry into their daughter’s mysterious death. The chief minister has given the Calcutta Police's SIT time till Sunday or else the case will be handed over to the CBI. The case is likely to be heard today.

The protesting doctors have given the Mamata Banerjee government time till Thursday to announce a court-monitored or else they will intensify the movement further.

The course that the movement would take place is undisclosed yet. Junior doctors across the country have joined the protest against the brutal killing of the postgraduate trainee.