{"id":69029,"date":"2025-01-20T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/20\/indian-police-volunteer-gets-life-sentence-for-raping-and-murdering-trainee-doctor"},"modified":"2025-01-20T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:28:14","slug":"indian-police-volunteer-gets-life-sentence-for-raping-and-murdering-trainee-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69029","title":{"rendered":"Indian police volunteer gets life sentence for raping and murdering trainee doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge rejects death penalty for Sanjay Roy as victim\u2019s parents suspect more were involved in killing, which sparked strikes<\/p>\n<p>An Indian police volunteer has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in Kolkata, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and widespread hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/doctors-strike-in-india-after-and-at-state-run-hospital\">strikes<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>The court rejected demands for the death penalty, saying it was not a \u201crarest-of-rare\u201d crime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/20\/indian-police-volunteer-gets-life-sentence-for-raping-and-murdering-trainee-doctor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge rejects death penalty for Sanjay Roy as victim\u2019s parents suspect more were involved in killing, which sparked strikesAn Indian police volunteer has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,242,61,2410,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69030,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029\/revisions\/69030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}