‘If someone is a monster, how can society show humanity?’: Mamata Banerjee on R G Kar verdict

Addressing the conception of beingness sentences, Banerjee questioned their effectiveness. “What is the meaning of a beingness sentence? In galore cases, culprits are released connected parole adjacent aft committing heinous crimes successful 2 oregon 3 years. I americium genuinely shocked by the judgement successful the RG Kar case. I excessively person studied the instrumentality and recognize it. I did not similar the judgement which said ‘it is not the rarest of uncommon cases’. I deliberation it is, indeed, the rarest of rare, sensitive, and heinous crimes,” she remarked.

“If a transgression is released oregon not punished, they mightiness again perpetrate a misdeed,” Banerjee added.

On these remarks, BJP person Dilip Ghosh said, “She is nether pressure, truthful present she is saying this. How galore criminals person been yet hanged successful her regime? She inactive has time. This lawsuit has brought a atrocious sanction for her. She is simply a pistillate Chief Minister, fto her springiness much impervious and documents for an probe into the close absorption and guarantee each culprits progressive are punished.”

This marks the 2nd clip since the Sealdah court’s determination connected Monday to condemnation Sanjoy Roy to beingness imprisonment for the rape and execution of a doc astatine R G Kar Medical College that Banerjee voiced her disagreement. Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities approached the Calcutta High Court connected Tuesday, seeking a decease punishment for Roy. The Sealdah court’s Additional Sessions Judge Anirban Das had acknowledged the CBI’s petition for superior punishment but yet deemed the lawsuit not to beryllium the “rarest of rare”.

“Kolkata Police would person ensured the decease punishment for the convict successful the RG Kar rape and execution case, but the probe was taken distant and handed implicit to the CBI,” Banerjee said.