Bombay High Court (HC) has ordered striking resident doctors in Maharashtra to join work immediately or face action by management. The HC has specifically said that the management is free to initiate action and contempt proceedings against the striking doctors.

The state government has told the court that medical services in Maharashtra were paralysed because of 60 per cent of resident doctors going on strike across the state.

A vast majority of resident doctors across major health centres of Mumbai have gone on leave in protest after a resident doctor at Mumbai Sion hospital has beaten by the relatives of a patient who passed away, earlier this week.