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By K.Balchand
FORGETTING THE OATH: A doctor raises a gun as tempers ran high at a meeting at the Indian Medical Association in Patna on Wednesday. There was sharp difference of opinion among the doctors on the issue of continuing the strike. — Photo: Ranjeet Kumar
PATNA, NOV. 17. Striking doctors today decided to attend to emergency cases across the State following the release of the abducted doctor, Nagendra Prasad, in Maheshkut in Khagaria district earlier in the day. The decision to partially lift their five-day-old strike was taken at a meeting of the State chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) later in the evening. The person in charge of the media cell, Brajnandan Yadav, told reporters that the doctors would desist from doing their normal work and that the private doctors too would continue to be on strike. There was sharp difference of opinion among the doctors and one of them even brandished a rifle. Those who wanted to continue the strike said that N.K. Agrawal's killers had not been nabbed and that several of them continued to receive threatening calls. The IMA chief, Vijay Shanker Singh, held talks with the Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad, and the Health Minister, Shakuni Chaudhary. The doctors were assured that the Government was sympathetic to their demands. Dr. Prasad, who was kidnapped from Vaishali district, was released after three weeks. The IG Prisons, Deepak Kumar Singh, conducted a raid at the Bhagalpur Central Jail in the wake of the police claim that an accused, Bindu Singh, lodged there was behind the murder of Dr. Agrawal. The State Government is also probing the role of the Bhagalpur Jail Superintendent, S.K. Ambastha, and has sought an arrest warrant against him. The police have decided to take Bindu Singh into remand for interrogation in the murder case.
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