RG Kar rape-murder case: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed disappointment over the life imprisonment awarded to Sanjay Roy, convicted in the RG Kar rape and murder case, by a Kolkata court.
Responding to the decision, Mamata Banerjee has said that I am not satisfied… We all had demanded death penalty, but the court gave life imprisonment. Banerjee claimed that the investigation was forcibly taken away from the Kolkata Police and said that if the investigation had been with her, she would have ensured the death penalty.
Speaking to reporters in Murshidabad district, Chief Minister Banerjee raised questions on the CBI investigation in the case. He claimed, we all had demanded death penalty, but the court has given life imprisonment till death. The matter was forcibly taken away from us. Had it been with the (Kolkata) police, we would have ensured that he gets death penalty. He said, we do not know how the investigation was conducted. Death penalty was ensured in several similar cases investigated by the state police. I am not satisfied with the decision.
A Sealdah court has sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death after finding him guilty in the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. 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, sparking unprecedented and prolonged protests across the country. . Judge Das said that the reason for not giving death penalty to the convict is that the crime does not fall in the category of the rarest of the rare.