Kolkata: The mother and father of the 31-year-old trainee physician, who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital in August 2024, refused to just accept the compensation awarded to them by the court docket at the same time as they questioned on what would qualify as a “rarest of rare crime”.
Social activists collect outdoors the Sealdah court docket in Kolkata on Monday. (Samir Jana/ Hindustan Occasions)
“We don’t want compensation judge saheb. We wanted justice,” the sufferer’s father mentioned within the courtroom quickly after the decide pronounced the sentence.
Moments earlier than, the extra district and classes decide at Sealdah court docket had sentenced the convict to life imprisonment and had ordered the state authorities to pay a compensation of ₹17 lakh to the mother and father.
The sufferer’s mother and father, who had been seated in one of many benches, stood up after the decision was pronounced and with folded fingers, they refused to just accept the compensation. The mother and father had been visibly damaged and tears rolled down their cheeks.
The decide, nonetheless, clarified that it wasn’t a compensation as nothing may compensate the loss they’d suffered.
“Do not consider this as a compensation. I know this death can’t be compensated. It is the liability of the state because she was an on-duty doctor, and we have to pay this compensation because we are bound by law,” the decide mentioned.
The court docket sentenced the convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment stating that the crime doesn’t match into the class of “rarest or the rare” wanted to award capital punishment.
“My daughter was raped and murdered on duty inside the hospital. I think this is a rarest of the rare case. If this isn’t a rarest of the rare case, which one is? The CBI has failed to prove that this is a rarest of the rare case,” the sufferer’s mom advised the media.
The trainee physician was discovered raped and murdered on August 9. The Kolkata Police arrested Roy a day later. The Calcutta excessive court docket handed over the case to the CBI on August 13.
“God had gifted us with a diamond. We couldn’t keep it safely. Today we have come to understand that it isn’t enough to be meritorious. One also needs to have influential parents,” she added.
The mother and father and a bit of junior medical doctors have been alleging from the start that Roy couldn’t be the one one responsible and there have been different individuals concerned.
“We wanted the investigating agency to bring all those who were involved in the crime to justice. We still believe that Roy wasn’t alone,” she advised the media.