KOLKATA: The in-camera day-to-day trial into the August 9 rape and homicide of a post-graduate trainee physician at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital ended on Thursday and the choose will pronounce the decision on January 18, legal professionals representing the sufferer’s mother and father and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) stated on Thursday.
West Bengal Junior Medical doctors Entrance organised a protest rally from Faculty Avenue to demand justice for the brutal rape and homicide of a health care provider of RG Kar Hospital in August final yr (HT Photograph/Samir Jana)
“We have demanded maximum possible punishment for Sanjay Roy, the key accused,” CBI lawyer Partha Sarathi Dutta, stated after the ultimate listening to by extra district periods choose Anirban Das.
The Calcutta excessive courtroom handed over the probe to the CBI on August 13 amid nationwide protests throughout India.
A former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was arrested by town police hours after the crime. He was later handed over to the CBI which took up the probe. The federal company submitted its first cost sheet within the case on October 7 and the particular choose framed the costs towards him on November 4.
The Sealdah courtroom performed the trial each day and examined 51 witnesses.
Roy’s lawyer Saurav Banerjee has claimed throughout proceedings that the proof was planted to border his shopper.
Amartya Dey, a lawyer representing the sufferer’s household, stated: “We have demanded death sentence for Roy but he is not the sole perpetrator. The investigation must continue.”
CBI has not but filed prices towards Dr Sandip Ghosh, the previous principal of RG Kar Medical Faculty, and Abhijit Mondal, the native Tala police station’s former officer-in-charge though each have been arrested by CBI and charged with tampering of proof. Ghosh additionally faces a separate case referring to monetary irregularities on the hospital.
On Thursday, the sufferer’s father lamented that CBI adopted the footsteps of the Kolkata police, which had claimed the rape and homicide was dedicated by Roy.
“We want to see Roy punished but it was not possible for him to commit the crime alone. The DNA tests (done by CBI) indicated the presence of four other persons at the crime scene. These people should be arrested and put on trial,” the sufferer’s father, who not too long ago moved the Calcutta excessive courtroom and Supreme courtroom demanding justice, stated.
Junior medical doctors from medical faculties throughout Bengal proceed their agitation to hunt justice for the sufferer.