Sanjay Roy was on Saturday held guilty of sexually assaulting the trainee doctor and throttling her to death in August last year.

The Additional District and session Judge Anirban Das also stated that the maximum possible sentence for Roy would be the death penalty, while the minimum sentence would be life imprisonment.

An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women.

A court found a police volunteer guilty of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor, a crime that sparked protests and hospital strikes amid concerns over lack of safety for women.

A court in India has convicted a man of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor - a crime that sparked nationwide outrage. Sanjay Roy, a hospital volunteer worker, was found guilty over the attack, which happened in August last year at a hospital in Kolkata city in West Bengal state.

Kolkata: A court in Kolkata found Sanjay Roy guilty on Saturday of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Justice Anirban Das pronounced the verdict, with sentencing scheduled for Monday.

Sanjay Roy, who was a civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was accused of the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Roy was arrested by the Kolkata Police on August 10,