It is deja vu time for doctors in Bihar. Many medical practitioners are at the receiving end of threat calls and extortion demands from gangsters in the state these days. They now want to protect themselves by obtaining arms licences but the administration is allegedly sleeping over their applications.

All the doctors in Saharsa went on indefinite strike from Monday night in protest against the delay on part of the district administration in issuing arms licence to them as well as the police inaction in arresting the extortionists who had sought huge amounts of ransom money from them recently.

Dr Sachchidanand Kumar, president of the Bihar chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that doctors had gone on strike in Saharsa because the administration had not issued arms licences despite repeated threats from extortionists.

Kumar said that although doctors were being threatened in different parts of Bihar, the situation in Saharsa-Madhepura was alarming. He said that an IMA delegation had met the Bihar DGP recently but the situation had not improved so far.

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