Kolkata: Kolkata’s Sealdah court docket on Saturday held Sanjay Roy, the prime suspect within the August 9 rape and homicide of a post-graduate trainee physician on the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital, responsible underneath three sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), attorneys stated.
Attorneys and others watch Sanjay Roy being dropped at the Sealdah court docket in Kolkata on Saturday. (PTI)
Anirban Das, the extra district and classes decide, pronounced the decision round 3pm in a crowded courtroom and stated the quantum of punishment might be introduced on Monday.
“The minimum punishment for your crime is life imprisonment and maximum punishment is death sentence,” the decide stated, addressing Roy, who claimed to be harmless.
Partha Sarathi Dutta, the lawyer representing the Central Bureau of Investigation, which probed the crime, stated Roy was discovered responsible underneath sections 66 (rape), 64 (inflicting damage leading to demise) and 103 (1) (homicide) of BNS.
The in-camera trial within the case ended on January 9.
“We demanded maximum possible punishment for Sanjay Roy,” the CBI’s lawyer stated.
The CBI inquiry was ordered by the Calcutta excessive court docket on August 13 amid mass protests throughout India. The Chief Justice of India’s bench took over the listening to on September 20 via a suo motu petition.
The trial of Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer who was named because the principal accused within the 31-year-old physician’s rape and homicide, occurred daily (besides holidays) for 2 months on the Sealdah court docket. The decide examined 51 witnesses.
Roy was arrested by the Kolkata police hours after the crime. Costs towards him have been framed by CBI on October 4.
Through the trial, which residents and the media have been barred from witnessing, Roy’s lawyer Saurav Banerjee argued that proof towards the suspect was planted to border him, attorneys who attended the hearings stated.
Amartya Dey, a lawyer representing the sufferer’s household on the Sealdah court docket, demanded demise sentence for Roy however argued that he was not the only real perpetrator.
The sufferer’s mother and father moved the Supreme Court docket in early-January demanding punishment for different suspects within the crime. They’ve alleged that their daughter was a sufferer of a bigger conspiracy.
The CBI has not but framed expenses towards Dr Sandip Ghosh, the previous principal of RG Kar Medical School, 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 is going through investigation in a separate case regarding monetary corruption on the hospital.
When the trial ended, the sufferer’s father alleged that CBI adopted the footsteps of the Kolkata police, which, too, claimed that the crime 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,” the sufferer’s father stated on Saturday earlier than the decision was introduced.