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Doctors have alleged that the judgement has also effectively removed the 50% reservation for doctors working in government hospitals. more-inMore than 200 medical students and doctors staged a road roko in front of Government Rajaji Hospital here on Thursday as part of their ongoing protest to ensure that 50% reservation for service doctors in postgraduate admissions is not taken away. The protest was triggered by a ruling of Madras High Court on April 18, which overrode the method used in Tamil Nadu for calculation of incentive marks for doctors working in government hospitals with the method imposed by Medical Council of India. Traffic on the busy Panagal Road was briefly affected in the afternoon as the protestors came out of the hospital and raised slogans demanding the safeguarding of the reservation. They were detained by Madurai City police and released in the evening..