Sealdah Court in Kolkata has pronounced life imprisonment to the convict Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case. The court also directed the state to pay compensation of Rs 17 lakh to the victim doctor's family.
On Saturday, Sealdah Court in Kolkata found him guilty of the brutal rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the premises of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital.
He was convicted under Sections 64, 66 and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The former civic volunteer was arrested on August 10, a day after the 31-year-old trainee doctor바카라s body was found in the seminar room of the hospital. The judgement has come nearly two months after the in-camera trial commenced in November last year and 162 days after the heinous crime was committed on August 9, 2024.
During the hearing on Monday, Roy maintained that he had been framed and was not guilty of the crime. 바카라I have not done anything, still, I have been held guilty,바카라 he said in the court.
바카라All allegations are false, I am being implicated. I am innocent, I am not being allowed to say anything. I have been tortured, beaten,바카라 he claimed.
The prosecution had demanded capital punishment for Roy claiming that it is a 바카라rarest of rare cases바카라. 바카라There is a category of cases where the death penalty can be given. It바카라s the rarest of the rare category. The doctor was there at a government hospital to help patients. This falls into the rarest of rare categories,바카라 the prosecution said.
Judge Das however, said the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the rare" category as justification for not giving death penalty to the convict.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had also demanded capital punishment for Roy. 바카라I had done a rally demanding capital punishment before the verdict, we can't say anything but we want capital punishment,바카라 the CM said.
Section 64 (rape) of the BNS entails a punishment of not less than 10 years and can go up to life term. Section 66 (punishment for causing death or resulting in a persistent vegetative state of the victim) provides for a punishment of not less than 20 years that may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life, or with death. Section 103(1) (murder) of BNS provides for the death penalty or imprisonment for life to a person convicted of the crime.
The judge said the over 160-page judgement, which will be completed after the pronouncement of the sentence, will also categorically answer some questions raised by the complainant, the father of the victim.
