Kolkata’s Sealdah court on Saturday held Sanjay Roy, the prime suspect in the August 9 rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, guilty.
Anirban Das, the additional district and sessions judge, pronounced the verdict. “The minimum punishment for your crime is life imprisonment and the maximum punishment is death sentence,” the judge said, addressing Roy, who claimed to be innocent.
Partha Sarathi Dutta, the lawyer representing the CBI, which probed the crime, said Roy was found guilty under sections 66 (rape), 64 (causing injury resulting in death) and 103 (1) (murder) of BNS.
“We demanded maximum possible punishment for Sanjay Roy,” the CBI’s lawyer said. The quantum of punishment will be announced on Monday.
The Calcutta High Court ordered the CBI inquiry on August 13 amid mass protests across India.
