Doctors in the Indian city of Kolkata say they'll continue protesting until 'justice' is given to the female doctor who was raped and murdered at work last year, despite a guilty verdict. Civic police volunteer Sanjay Roy was convicted of the crimes in a Kolkata court yesterday and is facing a possible death sentence. A warning this story contains distressing details.
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00:00Despite Sanjay Roy, a civic police volunteer, being found guilty of raping and murdering
00:07the female trainee doctor at RGK Medical College and Hospital here in Kolkata last year,
00:14many in the state of West Bengal don't see that as justice.
00:18Many people believe and have alleged that more than one person would have had to be involved in the crime
00:25because of the extent of injuries that the victim suffered.
00:29We are on the road protesting that Sanjay Roy alone cannot be the murderer.
00:34We want the other names who are involved.
00:37A sentencing hearing will be held tomorrow.
00:40And when the court handed down its verdict to Sanjay Roy,
00:43it told him that the minimum sentence he's facing is life imprisonment
00:47and the maximum is the death penalty.
00:50And India's Federal Crime Investigation Agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation,
00:55has demanded that he be given the death penalty, the harshest sentence.
01:00But now we turn to the question of whether that actually is an effective deterrent
01:05and whether it will change anything, especially for women here in India.
01:10These doctors that we've spoken to have said that this crime has shaken them.
01:15They now don't feel safe in their workplace, the place where they go every day to save people's lives.
01:21This is their second home for us.
01:24So in the workplace, they are murdered. She murdered.
01:27And it sparked a wider conversation across the nation
01:32about what it's going to take to improve women's safety here in India.
01:36Back in 2012, the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi
01:42also led to four people being hanged.
01:45But according to many people that we've spoken to here,
01:48it doesn't seem like since then much has changed for women here in India.