Life or death for RG Kar rape and murder convict Sanjoy Roy? All eyes on Sealdah court

But, till the precise end, Roy insisted helium was guiltless and had been falsely implicated successful the case.

Billwadal Bhattacharya, a elder counsel astatine the Calcutta High Court, told The Indian Express that a batch of questions regarding the August 9 incidental inactive remained unanswered fixed that “there is nary further probe and this idiosyncratic has been made the sole convict”.

The maximum punishment for the crimes committed is the decease penalty, portion the minimum condemnation is beingness imprisonment. (Express Photo)

“The decease 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 against a woman. It was done successful a beastly manner. The mode the young doc was murdered, and the torture that was inflicted connected her, decidedly fits the rarest of uncommon cases, which precise good warrants the decease penalty,” helium said.

Bhattacharya besides raised questions astir the investigation. “Initially, determination were allegations that the constabulary were trying to botch up the investigation. There were a batch of loopholes, which is wherefore the substance got transferred to the CBI by the Calcutta High Court. But the question is, was it done lone by this peculiar idiosyncratic who has been convicted? Now, a batch of questions volition stay unanswered.”

He added, “In our country, the ineligible strategy grants an accidental to entreaty against the bid of condemnation fixed by the little court. This volition instrumentality time…”

Another elder counsel astatine the precocious court, Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, said that Roy has been declared blameworthy connected the ground of documents collected arsenic circumstantial grounds oregon statements of eyewitnesses.

“In this case, helium has been declared blameworthy connected the ground of circumstantial evidence. I bash not cognize what is the value and worth of the circumstantial evidence, but astatine the aforesaid time, it has to beryllium appreciated that the immense unit of the nationalist has played a captious relation successful this case,” helium told The Indian Express.

Reflecting connected the Kamduni lawsuit of 2013, helium said, “Due to the unit of society, 7 persons were fixed the decease penalty; 1 idiosyncratic died during trial, and six persons faced the trial. They appealed successful the precocious court, and we saw that 4 radical came retired and 2 radical got beingness terms. Not a azygous 1 got the decease penalty, due to the fact that the witnesses and grounds were weak.”

Chatterjee said the decease punishment was the lone option. “But I consciousness determination are immoderate doubts successful the trial. In the little court, a decease condemnation volition beryllium given, but erstwhile the lawsuit goes to the precocious tribunal oregon the Supreme Court, I bash not cognize what the destiny of this lawsuit volition be.”

Advocate Kaustav Bagchi, different counsel astatine the Calcutta High Court, noted that the proceedings was in-camera and said the question of the decease punishment would decidedly arise. “But what we are each much acrophobic with is that isolated from Sanjoy, determination are much perpetrators of the transgression and they request to beryllium booked. We anticipation and judge that this proceedings has not been a shabby oregon a shoddy trial. We anticipation that the condemnation fixed to Sanjoy volition not beryllium overturned by a higher court,” helium told The Indian Express.

The verdict was delivered 162 days aft the on-duty postgraduate trainee doc was raped and murdered connected the premises of the infirmary successful Kolkata. The CBI counsel has termed the transgression arsenic the rarest of uncommon during the trial.