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Sealdah Court in Kolkata has pronounced life imprisonment to the convict Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case.
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 doctor’s 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.
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During the hearing on Monday, Roy maintained that he had been framed and was not guilty of the crime. “I have not done anything, still, I have been held guilty,” he said in the court.
“All allegations are false, I am being implicated. I am innocent, I am not being allowed to say anything. I have been tortured,peso99 beaten,” he claimed.
The prosecution had demanded capital punishment for Roy claiming that it is a ‘rarest of rare cases’. “There is a category of cases where the death penalty can be given. It’s 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,” the prosecution said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had also demanded capital punishment for Roy. “I had done a rally demanding capital punishment before the verdict, we can't say anything but we want capital punishment,” the CM said.
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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 judgementmilyon88, 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.