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After Roy was arrested by Kolkata constabulary a time aft the incident, nary lawyers wanted to correspond him astatine the Sealdah court. (Express record photo)
Sanjoy Roy, who has been sentenced to beingness imprisonment for the rape and execution of a inferior doc astatine R G Kar Medical College and hospital, has been approached by a backstage counsel to correspond him successful court.
This comes astatine a clip erstwhile some the authorities authorities and CBI person moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a decease condemnation for Roy.
The advocate, Yash Jalan, met Roy doubly astatine the Presidency Central Jail connected January 22 and 23.
“He is not adjacent alert that the authorities has filed a plea seeking a decease condemnation connected the case. He is successful solitary confinement. I person already discussed the lawsuit with him… He is yet to instrumentality a last call. I volition record an entreaty with the Calcutta High Court to let maine to correspond him. I volition enactment pro bono. There is simply a ineligible proviso for it,” Jalan told The Indian Express.
The trial
On Monday, Additional District and Sessions justice Anirban Das sentenced Roy, a civic unpaid attached to the Kolkata police, to beingness imprisonment, months aft the doc was raped and murdered successful the aesculapian assemblage connected August 9.
After Roy was arrested by Kolkata constabulary a time aft the incident, nary lawyers wanted to correspond him astatine the Sealdah court, and the tribunal assigned a lawyer from the Legal Aid Defense Council System nether the State Legal Aid Services Authority.
Jalan said, “I work the judgement of the Sealdah tribunal and it highlights galore issues successful the case. In my opinion, galore things successful the lawsuit are yet to travel retired successful the limelight. The information has to travel retired for justness to beryllium delivered… The proceedings was conducted successful haste and the punishment is improper.”
“If the tribunal allows me, I volition correspond him successful the ongoing proceeding of the entreaty of the authorities authorities against the Sealdah court’s judgment. I privation to besides record an entreaty against the condemnation fixed by the little court,” Jalan added.
The authorities connected Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court to inquire for superior punishment for Roy, portion the CBI filed their entreaty successful the tribunal connected Friday.
The substance is being heard by Justice Debangsu Basak’s Division Bench.
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