The protesting doctors and students from AIIMS, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Maulana Azad Medical College and Vardhaman Mahaveer Medical College (VMCC) demanded that those responsible for denial of reservation should face criminal prosecution.
"The reservation policy is not properly implemented in various institutions. The gross under representation of SC, ST and OBC in medical institutes clearly suggest that infraction of reservation roster is not only confined to AIIMS.
"We therefore, demand that deliberate and willful denial of reservation through dubious manipulations be made a criminal offence, and those found responsible for the crime be dealt with deterrent punishment," said members of Forum for Rights and Equality and Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum of AIIMS.
They emphasised that if there can be penal provisions for even minor violation of traffic rules, "why should such a gross and criminal violation of constitutional norms go unpunished."
"Such a conspiracy by those opposed to reservations can only be defeated by building wider struggles for protecting the interests of the weaker sections of the society in which all the democratic elements from all castes and strata of society need to be involved," a speaker said.