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"There should person been eventual punishment for a idiosyncratic who committed specified a crime," Banerjee said. (Express Photo)
“I’m not satisfied,” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday aft a Sealdah tribunal sentenced Sanjay Roy — convicted successful the rape and execution of a inferior doc successful Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital — to beingness imprisonment.
The sentencing comes 2 days after Additional District and Sessions justice Anirban Das recovered Roy blameworthy of the August 9 rape and murder, which triggered monolithic protests by inferior doctors successful West Bengal.
“From the archetypal day, we’ve been demanding superior punishment. The lawsuit was taken distant from america (Kolkata Police), and the Central Bureau of Investigation did the investigation. There should person been eventual punishment for a idiosyncratic who committed specified a crime,” Banerjee said portion speaking with the media successful Murshidabad.
On August 9, the assemblage of the doc was recovered astatine RG Kar aesculapian assemblage hospital, triggering an indefinite onslaught from doctors. In effect to the case, the West Bengal assembly passed the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) Bill 2024 proposing harsh penalties, specified arsenic the superior punishment, for rapes and intersexual abuse. The Bill, which the assembly passed past September, is presently pending statesmanlike assent.
In the aftermath of the rape and murder, the Trinamool Congress held rallies and dharnas demanding the decease punishment for Roy.
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