An India police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, local media reported, in a speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over the 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.

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.

The crime sparked nationwide protests and hospital strikes last year.An Indian court on Saturday found a 33- year-old police volunteer guilty of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata last year.

An Indian court has convicted a civic police volunteer of brutally raping and murdering a female doctor at work in a Kolkata hospital last year.