R G Kar Rape-Murder case: Opposition questions govt’s push for Sanjoy Roy’s death penalty

“The State authorities has already tampered with the evidence, wherefore is the authorities authorities not taking immoderate steps against those who tampered with the evidence. Sanjoy Roy cannot perpetrate specified a transgression alone. Where are the others? Who are they?. We don’t spot the authorities authorities taking immoderate steps to look for them, which means that the authorities authorities is portion of tampering with the grounds and present hurriedly without having immoderate jurisdiction has moved to the High Court seeking for the decease punishment nether immoderate circumstances,” Sinha alleged portion speaking with The Indian Express.

Pointing retired that “no 1 knows the motive down this crime,” helium further alleged, “Everyone is saying that it is not imaginable for 1 idiosyncratic to perpetrate specified a transgression past the question is wherever are the others? Till present nary 1 knows the motive down this transgression and nether whose instructions did each this happen.”

“If Roy is fixed the decease punishment each questions volition stay unanswered. Like the past CPI(M) authorities nether Buddhadev Bhattacharya had fixed the decease condemnation to Dhananjoy Chaterjee successful 2004, but respective questions came up, which volition ne'er beryllium answered. Similarly if Sanjoy is hanged past those who are the existent culprits volition respire a suspiration of relief,” Sinha alleged.

Congress authorities spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy claimed that, “There are a batch of inconsistencies. From the precise archetypal time of the incident, the relation of the Kolkata Police and the authorities was to screen up the full incidental and downplay it. When the justice was pronouncing the judgement helium besides mentioned the inconsistencies, past tampering of grounds and a imaginable screen up. It is besides arsenic wide arsenic daylight that Roy is not alone. Now, if Roy is hanged past it seems… those influential radical … hiding down curtains, volition beryllium free.”

While addressing the authorities government’s propulsion for the decease punishment for Roy, Aich alleged, “Now it has go the sole work of the authorities to soundlessness the dependable of Sanjoy Roy. From the precise opening we person said that this is simply a fractional cooked investigation, we consciousness that the Kolkata Police and the CBI unneurotic person misled the investigation. And with the hurriedness of the authorities for Roy’s decease penalty, it is wide that they privation to soundlessness his dependable to prevention others.”

Meanwhile, CPI (M) person Sujan Chakraborty, portion speaking with The Indian Express claimed, “Its precise elemental the CM is funny to guarantee that determination is nary scope of indictment of her team. Like they had hurriedly cremated the victim’s assemblage truthful that determination was nary accidental of a 2nd station mortem, likewise if Sanjoy is fixed the decease punishment and hanged, determination volition beryllium nary scope to question him again. Just to prevention her squad the CM has forgotten the instrumentality and moved for an entreaty successful the High Court.”

On Monday, Additional Sessions Judge Anirban Das of Sealdah Court had awarded Sanjoy Roy beingness imprisonment “until his past breath”. Roy, a 35-year-old civic volunteer, was convicted connected Saturday nether Sections 64 (punishment for rape), 66 (punishment for causing decease oregon a persistent vegetative authorities to a woman), and 101 (1) (murder) successful a ruling that came 5 months aft the August 9 incidental sparked outrage and triggered monolithic protests of doctors successful West Bengal.