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Advocate General Kishore Dutta approached division bench Justice Debangshu Basak seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy. Permission has been given to register the case.
The West Bengal government moved the Calcutta High Court against the Sealdah court’s decision to sentence Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case. Advocate General Kishore Dutta approached division bench Justice Debangshu Basak seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy. Permission has been given to register the case.
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das in Sealdah on Saturday found Roy guilty of the crime committed against the postgraduate trainee doctor at the hospital on August 9 last year, which had led to unprecedented and prolonged protests across the country. . Judge Das, while not giving death penalty to the convict, said that this crime does not fall in the rarest of rare category. Roy, a former civilian volunteer of Kolkata Police, was found guilty under sections 64 (rape), 66 (death penalty), and 103 (1) (murder) of the Indian Code of Justice (BNS). The judge said that under section 64, the punishment is life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50 thousand.
He told that in case of non-payment of fine, he will have to face additional punishment of five months. Under Section 103(1), Roy has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 50,000, and in default of payment of fine, five months’ jail.
West Bengal Govt moves to Calcutta High Court against the Sealdah court’s decision sentencing Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case.
Advocate General Kishore Dutta moves division bench Justice Debangshu Basak seeking…
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