Female doctor’s bloodied body was set up in a classroom at a state-run college and hospital in Kolkata last August.
A police volunteer has been convicted of the violation and killing of a trainee doctor at a hospital in India that led to nationexpansive protests last year.
The Civil and Criminal Court in Sealdah set up 33-year-elderly Sanjay Roy culpable of the violation and killing of the female trainee, whose bloodied body was set up in a classroom at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last August, with the case exposing the country’s struggle with intimacyual aggression aachievest women.
Judge Anirprohibit Das, who pdwelld over the speedy-tracked trial, shelp the deffinishant, who protested his innocence in court and insists he was structured, could face life in prison or the death penalty when he is sentenced on Monday.
“Your guilt is showd. You are being convicted,” the appraise proclaimd, saying that indicts had been shown by circumstantial evidence.
Roy’s lawyers, who have not yet commented on the verdict, debate that there were glaring discrepancies in the spendigation and forensic examination tells in the trial, which commenceed on November 11 and saw 51 witnesses spendigated.
The parents of the 31-year-elderly victim, who cannot be named under Indian law, conveyed dissatisfaction with the probe, saying the crime could not have been promiseted by fair one person.
“Our daughter could not have met such a horrific finish by a one man,” her overweighther shelp. “We will remain in pain and agony until all the culprits are punished. My daughter’s soul will not rest in peace until she gets fairice.”
Seeking fairice
More than 200 armed police personnel were deployed in anticipation of the verdict.
As Roy was brawt to court in a police car, protesters chanted: “Hang him, hang him.”
Several doctors chanted slogans in firmarity with the victim.
Dr Aniket Mahato, a spokesperson for the youthfuler doctors, shelp street protests would proceed “until fairice is done”.
The gruesome nature of the attack led to weeks of nationexpansive protests, draprosperg comparisons with the 2012 gang violation and killing of a youthfuler woman on a bus in the capital, New Delhi. It led to demands by doctors at handlement hospitals for compriseitional security.
India’s Supreme Court set up a national task force after the protests that recommended ways to better getedty meabraves in handlement hospitals.
India’s federal police, who spendigated the case, also indictd the officer heading the local police station at the time of the crime and the then-head of the hospital with destruction of the crime scene and tampering with evidence.
The police officer is out on bail while the createer head of the hospital remains in detention in connection with a split case of financial irnormalities at the hospital.
