Amid tight security medic murder convict Sanjay Roy escorted to Sealdah Court
20-Jan-2025 12:47 PM 8956
Kolkata, Jan 20 (Reporter) Amid tight security arrangements, medic murder convict Sanjay Roy, a Civic Volunteer, was on Monday escorted to the Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court in central Kolkata, where Additional and Sessions judge Justice Anirban Das to pronounce the quantum of punishment, court sources said. The judge is expected to hold the court at around 12-30 hours. He is expected to hear Roy's statement before coming to a decision after hearing both CBI counsel Anuraj Modi and the advocates of the victim's parents, sources added. Civic Volunteer Sanjay Roy was escorted from the Presidency jail around 1020 am by a fleet of convoy cars and took him into the court premises in 20 minutes amid tight security by some 500 Kolkata Personnel under the directive of the two senior officers in the rank of Deputy Police Commissioner. The Police, meanwhile, denied permission to hold rallies of two organisations- Doctors Forum and Justice for Avaya- anticipating law and order problems in and around the court and central part of the city. Sanjay Roy, who was convicted on Saturday of raping and murdering a 31-year-old duty doctor inside the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in the city on August 9. Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das on Saturday declared Roy guilty of rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at the hospital on August 9 last year. Sanjay Roy was found guilty of sexually assaulting the doctor and throttling her to death. He was convicted by the judge under Sections 64, 66 and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The charges under which Roy has been convicted entail a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, while the maximum can be death sentence...////...
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