Sentencing Roy to life in prison, a Kolkata court said Monday that the case didn’t meet the criteria to be classified as ‘rarest of rare’, and therefore, did not merit death penalty.

An on-duty junior doctor was brutally raped and murdered at the government-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal in August 2024, triggering nationwide outrage and prolonged protests by junior doctors in Kolkata,

This development follows a Kolkata court’s ruling on January 20 sentencing Sanjay Roy to imprisonment till death for the rape and murder of the on-duty doctor, fueling widespread demand for death penalty.

Roy was on January 18 convicted under charges which entailed a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, while the maximum could be capital punishment.

Advocate-general Kishore Datta sought permission from the division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi in the morning to file the appeal

A sessions court in Kolkata will pronounce today the quantum of sentence for Sanjay Roy. Follow The Hindu’s live updates

An Indian court has sentenced the man convicted of raping and murdering a female doctor at a Kolkata hospital to life in prison.

An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata, rejecting demands for the death penalty and saying it was not a rare crime.

An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor last year – a crime that sparked nationwide protests. Sanjay Roy, 33, plans to appeal the judgment in a higher court.

A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Although demands for the death penalty were rejected, the ruling triggered protests.