The Calcutta High Court on Friday accepted the appeal of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in which the RG-Kar Hospital rape-killing case Sanjay Roy has been challenged for life imprisonment prisoned by the lower court.
However, the bench refused to accept the appeal of the West Bengal government challenging the sentence pronounced to the only convict Roy in the case.
Both the CBI and the state government had filed an appeal in the High Court requesting Roy to sentence him to death.
A division bench of Justice Debangasu Basak and Justice Mohammad Sabbar Rashidi said that since the CBI had investigated, his appeal challenging the sentence is accepted for hearing.
On August 9 last year, a doctor was murdered after raping the RG and inside the seminar room of the Medical College and Hospital.
The next day Roy was arrested by Kolkata Police.
The Calcutta High Court later handed over the investigation to the CBI.
The central agency filed a charge sheet in the lower court on October 7 and on November 4, charges were framed against Roy.
The lower court on January 20 convicted Roy in the case and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Both the CBI and the state government challenged the sentence given to Roy and filed separate appeal in the Calcutta High Court and requested to sentence the death sentence.
The bench reserved its decision on both the appeals on 27 January.
