Kolkata rape-murder: Court to pronounce quantum of punishment, convict Sanjoy Roy’s fate to be decided today

Roy was convicted nether sections 64, 66 and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

While conception 64 (rape) of the BNS entails a punishment of not little than 10 years and tin spell up to beingness term, conception 66 (punishment for causing decease oregon resulting successful persistent vegetative authorities of victim) provides for punishment of not little than 20 years that whitethorn widen to imprisonment for life. The conception 103(1) (murder) of BNS provides for decease punishment oregon imprisonment for beingness to a idiosyncratic convicted of the crime.

“Death punishment is fixed successful the rarest of uncommon cases. There cannot beryllium immoderate 2nd thoughts connected the information that this was 1 of the astir heinous forms of transgression connected a woman. It was done successful a beastly manner,” elder counsel of Calcutta High Court Billwadal Bhattacharya said. “But the main question is however palmy were the investigating agencies… The question remains — was lone 1 idiosyncratic who has been convicted present involved? A batch of questions volition stay unanswered,” Bhattacharya added.

Senior counsel Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee said, “He (Sanjoy Roy) has been declared blameworthy connected the ground of circumstantial evidence. I bash not cognize what is the value and worth of the circumstantial grounds but astatine the aforesaid clip it has to beryllium appreciated that the immense unit of the nationalist has played a captious relation successful this case.”

“In RG Kar case, I bash not cognize the value and worth of the witnesses. But erstwhile lone Sanjoy Roy has been declared guilty, it appears that the modular of weights is not truthful precocious and not truthful strong. Till date, I consciousness that the decease punishment is the lone option. In the little court, decease condemnation volition beryllium given, but erstwhile the lawsuit goes to the precocious tribunal oregon the Supreme Court, I bash not cognize what volition beryllium the destiny of this case,” Chatterjee added.

Advocate Kaustav Bagchi said, “…it falls nether the rarest of uncommon crime. So, the question of decease punishment volition decidedly arise. But what we each are much acrophobic with is that isolated from Sanjoy Roy, determination are much perpetrators of the transgression and they request to beryllium booked.”

“We anticipation and judge that this proceedings has not been shoddy. We anticipation that the condemnation fixed to Sanjoy volition not beryllium overturned by a higher court,” Bagchi added.

The verdict successful the August 9 rape and execution lawsuit was delivered nether 162 days. The CBI counsel termed it arsenic a rarest of uncommon transgression and sought superior punishment.

Judge Anirban Das connected Saturday said that implicit 160-page judgement volition categorically reply immoderate questions raised by the complainant, the begetter of the victim.

Das said that helium has criticised immoderate activities of the constabulary authorization arsenic good arsenic the infirmary authorization successful his judgment.

He said that convict Roy’s connection volition beryllium heard astatine 12:30 p.m. connected Monday, and the condemnation volition beryllium pronounced thereafter.
The probe into the lawsuit was transferred from the Kolkata Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Calcutta High Court.