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Kolkata: Agitating doctors from the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front on Wednesday appealed to citizens to switch off lights in homes for one hour between 9 to 10 pm to show solidarity with the doctor who was allegedly murdered and raped in Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital on August 9.

The lights-off campaign’s call was given even as junior doctors continued their cease-work in West Bengal government hospitals’ outdoor patients departments across the state as their agitation entered the 27th day.

On Tuesday, the state health secretariat suspended former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital Sandip Ghosh.

Ghosh, now on a 8-day CBI custody, was also removed from the state medical ethics committee, one of the demands of the striking medic.

The agitating doctors are firm on their demand for punishment to culprits behind a 31-year-old lady doctor’s alleged rape and murder in the R G Kar Hospital on August 9.

The protesting doctors have also demanded the resignation of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and sought safety for doctors in the hospitals.

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