NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court has admitted an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the trial court’s decision to sentence Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar medical college and hospital rape-murder case, to life imprisonment without parole. However, the court refused to admit a separate appeal by the…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: Bengal government appealed the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case verdict in Calcutta high court on Tuesday, questioning the rationale behind a sessions court not treating the crime “rarest of rare” and sparing convict Sanjay Roy the death sentence.The victim’s parents, too, intend to appeal Sealdah additional sessions…
A file photograph of Sanjay Roy NEW DELHI: A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death for the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, rejecting the prosecution’s plea for the death penalty. The court held that the case does not meet the “rarest of…
NEW DELHI: A Kolkata court on Monday sentenced RG Kar rape-murder case convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000. The Civil and Criminal court in Sealdah pronounced the sentence as the family of the 31-year-old doctor demanded strictest punishment for the convict.The court, while sentencing Sanjay Roy who was…
KOLKATA: Former colleagues of a 31-year-old resident doctor, raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College on Aug 9 last year, expressed deep disappointment with the verdict delivered by the Sealdah trial court Saturday. The court convicted main accused Sanjay Roy, but many felt the investigation and proceedings had not been thorough.Several junior doctors were…
KOLKATA: A trial court is set to deliver the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder verdict on January 18, more than five months after a 31-year-old junior doctor was violated and brutally killed in the state government-run institute, setting off a wave of protests in Kolkata, ripples of which were felt around the country.CBI,…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal’s Sealdah Court on Monday framed charges against prime accused Sanjay Roy under section 103(1), 64 and 66 Bhartiya Nyay Sahita in the RG Kar rape-murder and the trial is set to begin from November 11. However, while being taken away from the court, Sanjay Roy denied charges, claiming that he was…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its first chargesheet in the RG Kar Hospital case, accusing Sanjay Roy of the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor. The chargesheet, presented in a Sialdah court in West Bengal, identifies Sanjay Roy as the sole accused, ruling out the possibility of gang…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called for a 12-hour Bangla Bandh today, August 28, from 6 am to 6 pm, in protest against police brutality towards students rallying for justice in the the RG Kar rape and murder of a trainee doctor. On Tuesday, the student protest turned chaotic, with clashes between the police and…
CBI‘s polygraph test on Sanjay Roy, the arrested suspect in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, flagged “false and unconvincing” answers to questions on his newly professed “innocence”, investigators said on Sunday after a pair of designated officers conducted the proceedings at Kolkata’s Presidency jail, reports Rohit Khanna. Roy’s state-appointed counsel stirred a controversy when…
