Doctors Call Off Strike After RJD MLA Surrenders

After Bihar Chief Minister (CM) Nitish Kumar assured the junior doctors of adequate security, they finally called of the indefinite strike on Friday, demanding the arrest of RJD MLA Surendra Yadav, whose bodyguards had fired at two of the intern doctors in a Gaya hospital. The CM has assured the doctors that stringent action will be taken against those responsible for firing.

The RJD MLA surrendered before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya, R N S Pande. He was remanded to 14days judicial custody. The district and sessions judge had rejected his anticipatory bail petition on Thursday. The two bodyguards, who had allegedly fired at the junior doctors, have already been put behind the bars.

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