RG Kar case: CBI seeks death sentence for Roy

The CBI filed an appeal on Wednesday before the Calcutta High Court, seeking death sentence for Sanjay Roy, who was sentenced to life imprisonment until death by a Sealdah court in the rape-cum-murder case of an on-duty doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.

The agency made the move after receiving a legal advice that the brutal rape and murder of the 31-year-old trainee doctor comes under the “rarest of rare” category deserving capital punishment, they said.

Officials said the CBI was unanimous that the case deserves nothing but death penalty, seeing the manner in which the doctor was killed in her medical college.

SC defers suo motu hearing to Jan 29

The SC on Wednesday cited paucity of time and deferred to January 29 the hearing on the suo motu case over the RG Kar rape-murder case. The plea was set to be heard by the top court for the first time after the sentencing in the case

The CBI’s plea seeking death penalty for Roy was turned down by the trial court, where Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das said the crime did not fall under the “rarest of rare” category.

Meanwhile, the West Bengal Government has already approached the HC, challenging the verdict and seeking death penalty for Roy, which took up the matter on Wednesday but did not decide on the appeal. The HC said it would hear the CBI, the victim’s family and the convict before deciding on the admission of the state government’s appeal. The HC said it will hear the matter on January 27.

The CBI opposed the state’s right to file an appeal in the case during the hearing.