The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed a plea within the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom difficult the decrease courtroom order granting life imprisonment to Sanjay Roy, accused within the RG Kar rape and homicide case. The CBI has sought the loss of life penalty for the convict.
This comes after the West Bengal authorities has additionally filed an enchantment within the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s Division Bench, difficult the life imprisonment of Sanjay Roy. Atorney Basic Kishore Dutta approached a bench headed by Justice Debangshu Basak pleading for the loss of life penalty for Roy. The subsequent listening to within the case is about for January 27.
Notably, the Sealdah Civil and Felony Courtroom had sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment and imposed a nice of Rs 50,000. Sad with the ruling, the state authorities is aiming to make sure a stiff penalty on this high-profile case.
Mamata Banerjee was sad with the decision and criticised the CBI. Talking in Murshidabad just lately, she had mentioned, “From day 1, all of us had demanded the loss of life sentence, however the courtroom has given a life time period till loss of life. We nonetheless persist with our calls for. I can share my get together’s opinion; the case was forcibly taken from us. Had it been with the (Kolkata) police, we might have ensured that he bought the loss of life sentence,” the CM mentioned.
The Sealdah courtroom on Monday sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment, after convicting him for the rape and homicide of the postgraduate trainee physician at RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital on August 9, 2024. The ghastly crime had led to unprecedented and extended nationwide protests.
Decide Das dominated that the crime didn’t fall underneath the “rarest of the uncommon” class, for not imposing the loss of life penalty on the convict. Roy, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was discovered responsible underneath Sections 64 (rape), 66 (punishment for inflicting loss of life), and 103(1) (homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).