A Kolkata court on Monday sentenced Sanjoy Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape-murder case, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000.
The Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court passed the verdict after the 31-year-old convict’s family had sought strict discipline for the offender.
The court refused to award the death penalty to Sanjoy Roy, convicted for the RG Kar rape-murder case of the 31-year-old, saying it was not a ‘rarest of the rare’ case.
Roy was on Saturday convicted of sexually assaulting and strangling the convict to death in August last year.
Earlier, during the proceedings, the CBI counsel pleaded for the highest discipline for the convict and described the crime as “rarest of the rare”.
This is a case which falls in the rarest of rare category.Roy should be given maximum discipline, which is capital punishment, to maintain people’s faith in society, said the counsel for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is seeking capital punishment.
However, Roy’s defence counsel had argued that a death sentence should be awarded on the basis of evidence that can prove that there is no chance of the convict reforming.
“We demand some other discipline than death penalty,” the defence counsel said. Meanwhile, Sanjoy Roy said he has been framed in the case.
Before the sentencing, Roy told the court, “I am being framed and I have not committed any crime.I have not done anything, and yet I have been convicted.”
I was beaten up in jail and forced to sign papers, he claimed. When the CBI took over the case, a medical test was conducted at a street sanitation centre but it did not show anything, Roy told the court.
