On Tuesday the SC expressed displeasure over the agitating medicos ignoring its appeal to call off their strike. The Court indicated that contempt action could be initiated against them if they continued with their protest, which had left 'patients at God's mercy.'

Striking medicos on Tuesday decided to carry on with their anti-reservation agitation despite the Supreme Court directive to call off the same. The 'Youth for Equality' said the Apex Court order is not addressed to them and it does not carry a contempt of court threat.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday again directed the protesting medicos to call off their strike forthwith and assured them that the apex court would look into their grievances.

Striking resident doctors of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Science and University College of Medical Sciences and other medical colleges and hospitals on Thursday decided to honour the Supreme Court directive and return to their duties with effect from Thursday.

Non-medical students in New Delhi on Thursday however, continued their anti-reservation strike despite doctors calling off their agitation.

Images: A file picture of a striking junior doctor with his face painted with anti-reservation slogans as he undergoes a relay hunger strike at a medical college, in Kolkata, May 31, 2006.

Photographs: Deshkalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images

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