RG Kar News: A local court in Kolkata has convicted a 33-year-old former civic police volunteer Sanjay Roy in a horrific rape and murder of a trainee doctor inside the state-run RG Kar hospital. He will be sentenced on Monday which concludes the horrifying event that shocked the country last year.
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The young doctor aged 31 years was on duty on the night of August 8 and was found dead the following morning and a massive investigation began along with protests that shut down Bengal.
Local media nicknamed her ‘Abhaya’ meaning ‘fearless’ in a similar manner that the victim of the infamous December 2012 gang rape in New Delhi was called ‘Nirbhaya’.
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Delivering a 160-page judgment today, the Additional District and Sessions Court in Sealdah convicted Roy under sections of the Indian Penal Code that cover rape, murder and causing death.
How Sanjay Roy Was Convicted of This Crime ?
I have condemned some conducts of the police and the hospital authorities as emerged in the evidence. It was criticized that activities of the HoD, MSVP and Principal created some confusion, said the judge Anirban Das during the time of passing the order.
And after the judgment, the man’s father fainted on the court and turning to the judge he said; “You have not disappointed me, sir.”
Arraigned before the packed circuit court on Saturday afternoon with a heavy police escort, Roy continued to allege that he was being set up as his lawyers attempted in vain to soothe him down. When he was being taken out, he protested that only a certain “IPS” knew everything.
The court said it will hear him on Monday when it hears the arguments on the punishments that he would face.
This is provided by the convict who after being convicted for the crime initially confessed that he was guilty if the crime but in his defense he continues to maintain that he did not commit the crime. Kolkata Police, from whom the CBI had fortunately taken over the investigation suspecting tampering with evidence, had also held him guilty.
Sanjay Roy was arrested for the first time by Kolkata Police on the next day of the gruesome incident where the victim was found dead in the Seminar hall of the hospital. When they took over, they handed him to the CBI. His trial was in-camera and behind the screen and the testimonies of no fewer than fifty witnesses taken.
Allegations of doctored evidence came in after a mob attacked the hospital’s emergency section when thousands of residents were preparing to protest against the crime. Apart from Roy the principal of the medical college Sandip Ghosh, and the former officer of the local police station Abhijit Mondal are other accused involved in evidence manipulation.
Both later got a “default bail” because the CBI did not pursue the charges in the next 90 days. In fact the fuller order has not been uploaded and once this is done this should shed more light on the claim of destruction of evidence.
The conviction also brings hope to over 3,000 doctors who downed tools demanding better working conditions and security infrastructure that would make them feel secure.
Statement of Kolkata Rape-Murder Convict To Court After Verdict
Sanjay Roy, now a main suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar hospital in Kolkata, has been convicted by a local court today.
He will be sentenced on Monday . Earlier, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, Roy was convicted under sections of the Bour Indian Penal Code relating to rape, murder and causing death.
The former civic volunteer, who was arrested with drugs, insisted that he had nothing to do with it and ‘was set up’. While he was being led away, Roy told the crowd – and specifically mentioned a particular “IPS” (Indian Police Service) officer who knew the truth.
KG Kar College Rape-Murder Case Incident Was Known By An IPS Officer
Only one IPS knows everything, why can’t I speak now? I haven’t done this. To those who could what the help of the reformers did it helps, why are those who did it being allowed to go? Originally, I always wear a ‘rudraksh’ around my neck.
If I ever did it it would have been a bad thing to do according to (referring to a saying). What justice can I expect?” he said.
Answering Roy, Anirban Das, Additional District and Sessions Judge of the Sealdah court said that he would be able to speak on Monday before the sentence is announced.
“You will be heard on Monday. Now, I have to take you to judicial custody. And it will be a grave punishment that will be announced next Monday when work will begin. I have fixed the time at 12:30 pm to hear. In that case, I’ll say the penalty,” he commented.
The judge also said, “I have commented on some actions of police authorities and hospital authorities which have emerged in the evidence. They noted that ‘’The activities of head of department, medical superintendent cum vice-principal (MSVP) and principal have created some confusion and that has been criticised.”
The judgment was delivered in an in-camera trial that began in November last year, with the pre-sentence nearly two months and over 160 days after the gruesome murder of August 9.
The crime made a stir across the country; Junior doctors went on strike in Kolkata and other regions of the country protesting against the incident seeking justice for the victim and better security measures for all other state-owned hospitals.
Even the government of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in West Bengal was criticized by doctors and the opposition for its alleged handling of the case.
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