Sanjay Roy, the culprit in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital trainee doctor rape and murder case has been sentenced to life imprisonment till death by a Kolkata court on Monday. He has also been fined Rs 50,000 by the Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court.
Sanjay Roy was found guilty by the Sessions Court under Sections 64 (rape), 66 (punishment for causing death), and 103(1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on Saturday.
The court also directed the Mamata Banerjee-led government to pay compensation of Rs 17 lakh to the victim’s family. However, the victim’s family has refused to accept any compensation.
Meanwhile, 33-year-old Sanjay Roy, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police has been telling the court that he has not committed the crime as is being “framed”.
Not rarest of rare says court
The CBI, which was probing the case after taking it over from Kolkata Police in August last year, had made an appeal to the court demanding capital punishment for Sanjay Roy saying it comes under the “rarest of rare” category. However, Additional district and sessions judge of the Sealdah court, Anirban Das stated that the case “did not fall under the rarest of rare category” and sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment.
All the culprits should be punished: Protesting doctor
Colleagues of the deceased doctor were seen protesting outside the court premises in Kolkata on Monday. One of the protesters, who did not wish to be named, told the media, “We want all the culprits to be punished, not only Sanjay. This is because Sanjay is only one of the culprits; he is not the only culprit in this case. There is a larger conspiracy involved in this case, we want justice.”
RG Kar junior doctor rape-murder case
A 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered inside Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on the 9th of August this year. The horrific crime took place around 4 a.m. when the trainee doctor went to sleep in a seminar room of the hospital during a break from her duty. Her semi-naked body was discovered from the hospital’s seminar room in the early hours of August 9.
Following this, junior doctors in Kolkata went on “cease work” following the incident and have been continuously protesting demanding that the culprits be arrested and punished. The brutal crime triggered nationwide protests by doctors seeking enhanced security for medical professionals at workplace.
