LUCKNOW, Oct. 14 -- Several bonded MBBS doctors, including women, were detained on Tuesday after they blocked a police bus and lay in front of it while resisting their removal from a protest site in Hazratganj. The doctors have been demanding equal pay and arrears for nearly 40 days. The confrontation took place around 2 pm near the Gandhi statue, where police were shifting the protesters to Eco Garden. Some women doctors pushed the bus with their hands, while others lay in front of it, challenging the police to run it over them rather than force them to leave. Police personnel subsequently lifted the protesters and put them on the bus. The protesters, from the 2018, 2019 and 2020 batches of government medical colleges, are demanding equal remuneration and payment of arrears, alleging that doctors performing bonded service under identical eligibility and service conditions are being paid different salaries. They said the government had assured them that their demands would be met and a government order issued within 24 hours. However, the order was not issued, they alleged. htc...