RG Kar Rape-Murder Case: Bengal Govt To Plead For Sanjay Roy’s Capital Punishment At High Court

SOURCE ; NEW18

Last Updated:January 20, 2025, 20:03 IST

The victim’s family and several political leaders were dissatisfied when a Kolkata court gave life imprisonment to Sanjay Roy for raping and murdering a trainee doctor in RG Kar Hospital last year.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said the state would appeal to the High Court to seek capital punishment for Sanjay Roy – the accused in the RG Kar Hospital Rape-Murder Case – who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sealdah court today.

This came after the parents of the deceased 31-year-old medic and several political leaders, including Mamata Banerjee herself, expressed dissatisfaction by the Sealdah court’s verdict, where it denied the CBI’s request for the death penalty to Roy, observing that it was not “rarest of the rare” case.

Taking to X, Banerjee said, “In the RG Kar junior doctor’s rape and murder case, I am really shocked to see that the judgement of the Court today finds that it is not a Rarest of Rare case!”

“I am convinced that it is indeed a rarest of rare case which demands capital punishment. How could the judgement come to the conclusion that it is not a rarest of rare case?! We want and insist upon death penalty in this most sinister and sensitive case,” she added.

This story is being updated.