Indian police volunteer gets life sentence for rape, murder of Kolkata junior doctor

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An Indian court handed down a life sentence on Monday (Jan 20) to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata, rejecting demands for the death penalty saying it was not a rare crime.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4nxzshea   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding

00:07him guilty of raping and murdering a trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital in August last

00:13year.

00:14Judge Anirban Das rejected demands for the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, saying it was

00:19not the rarest of the rare cases, and ordered the 33-year-old convict to spend rest of his

00:25life behind bars.

00:28Roy has consistently maintained his innocence, alleging he had been framed.

00:38He can appeal the judgment in a higher court.

00:42Protesters outside the courthouse called for tougher punishment, saying the case highlighted

00:47the issue of violence against women in the world's most populous country.

01:05The 31-year-old victim's bloodied body was discovered by police in a classroom at the

01:10state-run RG Khar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 last year.

01:15An autopsy found she had been strangled and sexually assaulted.

01:19The case was initially investigated by Kolkata police, but later the court handed over the

01:23probe to federal investigators after state government officers were accused of mishandling

01:28the investigation.

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