In short:
Kolkata's Sealdah Court found Sanjay Roy guilty of raping and murdering a 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Doctors and health practitioners marched through the streets after the verdict, calling for "other" perpetrators to also be tried.
What's next?
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Monday.
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.
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Kolkata's Sealdah Court found Sanjay Roy guilty of raping and murdering the 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG 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.
The court on Saturday convicted Roy on three counts — rape, murder and causing death — but did not hand down its judgement.
RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, was graffitied following the murder. (ABC News: Ellie Grounds)
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Monday.
Judge Anirban Das told Roy during the verdict the maximum sentence he is facing is the death penalty and the minimum is life in prison.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has demanded he be given the death penalty.
'We want the other names'
Protesters want names of other people involved in the case. (ABC News: Ellie Grounds)
Many in the state of West Bengal don't see this outcome as justice.
Doctors and health practitioners marched through the streets after the verdict calling for 'other' perpetrators to also be tried.
They allege that, due to the extent of the injuries the victim suffered, more than one person would had to have been involved in the crime.
Sagarika Mondal, a nurse at a private Kolkata hospital, said the verdict was not worth celebrating.
"We are on the road protesting that Sanjay Roy alone cannot be the murderer," she told the ABC.
"We want the other names who were involved on that day."
The victim's parents and Roy's defence team also made this argument throughout the trial.
"Our daughter could not have met such a horrific end by a single man," local media reported the father of the victim said.
"We will remain in pain and agony until all the culprits are punished."
Doctors not safe in their 'second home'
Medical staff at both the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the incident occurred, and other hospitals in West Bengal told the ABC the crime and the subsequent handling of the case mean they now feel unsafe at work.
"The workplace is the second home for us," Rita, a social worker, said.
"In her workplace, she [was murdered].
"As a woman, I believe that we are not safe in our state and in our country.
"We are not satisfied with this order. We are very disappointed."
Many are not satisfied with the verdict. (ABC News: Ellie Grounds)
In August, India's Supreme Court took up the case suo moto — on its own motion — and ordered a national task force be established to improve workplace safety in hospitals.
The case has been riddled with allegations of corruptions and cover-ups since the beginning.
The day after the doctor's body was discovered, Kolkata Police arrested Roy, but had the matter taken away from them a few days later, when Kolkata's High Court transferred the case to the CBI, criticising the local police's handling of the investigation.
The victim's parents also allege the police rushed them into cremating the body.
The case has been riddled with allegations of corruption. (ABC News: Ellie Grounds)
The CBI arrested the superintendent of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and the officer in charge of the local police station in September for allegedly tampering with evidence, but no charge sheet was ever submitted for them.
The police officer is out on bail, while the hospital superintendent, Sandip Ghosh, is in detention in connection with a separate case concerning financial irregularities at the hospital.
