BREAKING| RG Kar Rape-Murder Case : Life Imprisonment For Convict Sanjoy Roy [Live Updates ]

The state has also been directed to pay the victim’s family Rs 17 lakhs as compensation.

#BREAKING: the court has sentenced Sanjoy Roy to LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

Sanjoy Roy has now been brought to the courtroom before the court pronounces its verdict.

Judge Anirban Das has entered the courtroom to deliver the sentence.

Counsel for the victim’s parents has demanded the strictest punishment for Sanjoy Roy in the brutal rape and murder case.

The verdict is set to be delivered at 2:45pm.

As the verdict inches closer, various social justice organisations including “Abhaya Mancha” and Junior doctors organisations have gathered outside the Sealdah Sessions court demanding justice.

At the earlier hearing, Roy claimed his innocence and stated that he was not involved in the incident. Court held Roy guilty of the rape and murder of the trainee doctor.

The court relied on forensic reports which pointed to the involvement of Roy in the incident, placing his DNA at the scene and on the person of the deceased doctor.

Court stated that it would consider the submissions of Roy’s counsel before pronouncing its sentence at 2:45pm.

Roy was found guilty under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 64 (rape), 66 (causing injury resulting in death of rape victim), and 103 (1) (murder).

Section 103(1) provides for the death penalty or life imprisonment; section 66 provides for imprisonment of not less than 20 years, which may be extended to life; and section 64 lays down imprisonment of not less than 10 years, which may extend to life in prison.

The CBI demanded the death penalty for Roy and stated that the crime fell into the rarest of rare category.

Roy’s counsel demanded adherence to the SC guidelines on the death penalty and stated that the present case did not fall within the rarest of rare category.

Court directed Roy’s counsel to submit written submissions on the SC cases relied upon by them to state that Roy should not be given the death penalty.

At the sentencing hearing, sessions judge Anirban Das allowed Roy to present his side of the case.

The judge declined Roy’s version of events and stated that all evidence pointed towards him in the case.