A man has been charged for the rape and murder of a resident doctor during a night shift at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) alleges that the man, a civic volunteer with Kolkata police, was out drinking with a friend on the afternoon of August 8 before returning to the hospital where he found the female doctor asleep on a mattress.
The doctor's body was discovered the following day with multiple injuries and signs of sexual assault in a seminar hall at the hospital. The attack occurred while the doctor trainee was resting in a seminar room during a night shift. The CBI has charged the man under sections of Indian law related to rape, causing the death of a woman, and murder.
