By South Asia Correspondent Ellie Grounds, ABC News
Junior doctors in India hold placards in a government hospital, calling for justice for a doctor who was raped and killed, and demanding safety in the hospital, on 11 August. Photo: AFP/ Sudipta Das
An Indian court has convicted a civic police volunteer of brutally raping and murdering a female doctor while she was at work in a Kolkata hospital last year.
Kolkata's Sealdah Court found Sanjay Roy guilty of raping and murdering the 31-year-old trainee doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital while she was taking a nap in a seminar hall during her shift in August 2024.
The crime sparked outrage across India, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets in the weeks after, demanding justice for the victim, better safety for women, and improved working conditions for doctors.
It also led to a weeks-long nationwide doctors' strike.
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Monday.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation has demanded he be given the death penalty.
- ABC News
