Hard labour with daily wage of Rs 105 – how RG Kar rape convict Sanjay Roy will spend time in jail

Roy is present allowed to locomotion and workout wrong his jailhouse cell. He tin besides permission it arsenic agelong arsenic helium remains successful the compartment artifact nether the watchful eyes of peculiar guards.

“He volition person to acquisition hard labour present since helium is… nary longer an undertrial prisoner. Since helium is unskilled and has nary anterior acquisition successful semi-skilled oregon skilled labour, helium volition beryllium fixed a occupation with a regular wage of Rs 105,” said a elder jailhouse section official.

“He whitethorn beryllium fixed gardening work. It volition beryllium decided wrong a time oregon two. He volition archetypal larn and enactment arsenic an apprentice. He volition person to walk the remainder of his beingness here,” the authoritative said.

As portion of a betterment process, the convicts successful Presidency cardinal jailhouse prosecute successful hard labour specified arsenic gardening and making garments, furniture, puffed rice, and aluminium utensils.

Unskilled workers gain Rs 105, semi-skilled workers gain Rs 120, and skilled workers get Rs 135 arsenic regular wages, which accumulates successful a convict’s relationship successful jail. This magnitude tin beryllium utilized to bargain things from the jail, and if and erstwhile the convict is released, they instrumentality it with them.

Roy is successful compartment fig 6 of the high-security Poila Baish compartment block. His neighbours see erstwhile acquisition curate Partha Chatterjee, an accused successful the schoolhouse jobs “scam”, and Aftab Ansari and Jamaluddin Naser, convicts successful the American centre onslaught successful Kolkata. Special guards are posted adjacent Roy’s cell.

Jail officials stated that aft the sentencing, Roy asked for 3 much blankets than the jail’s accustomed 5 per occupant.

Kolkata Police had arrested Roy connected August 10, a time aft the doctor was recovered dead. He was arrested from the barracks of a Kolkata equipped constabulary battalion. A erstwhile boxer, helium became a civic unpaid successful 2019.