"Bigger Than Our Club": Football Rivals Unite To Protest Kolkata Rape Horror

The murdered doctor was found in the teaching hospital's seminar hall, suggesting she had gone there for a break during a 36-hour-long shift.

Thousands of outraged protesters, including arch-rival football fans, called for justice on Monday after the rape and murder of a Kolkata doctor as widespread strikes by healthcare workers entered a second week.

The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor's bloodied body at a state-run hospital in Kolkata on August 9 sparked medical strikes and protests across India, channelling anger at the chronic issue of violence against women.

Doctors' associations from government-run hospitals in many cities across the country continued strikes on Monday that cut non-essential services.