RG Kar Case: Doctors' Fast Unto Death Enters Day 7; Mamata Cops Lathicharge Peaceful Protesters

As junior doctors in Kolkata entered the fifth day of their fast-unto-death on Thursday, demanding justice for their colleague Abhaya, police clashed with protesters agitating over rape and murder of the 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital on August 9. The confrontation escalated as Mamata Banerjee ’s cops allegedly resorted to a lathi charge against junior doctors, intensifying the already heightened tensions surrounding this incident.