RG Kar Rape-Homicide Case Verdict: Within the contemporary updates pertaining to the RG Kar rape and homicide case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday, challenged the West Bengal authorities’s plea at a division bench of Calcutta Excessive Courtroom searching for the “dying penalty” for Sanjay Roy, the only convict within the case of the rape-murder of a girl physician of the state-run faculty and hospital.
Whether or not the state authorities’s petition on this depend can be admissible or not can be heard on the identical division bench on January 27. This comes two days after a particular court docket in Kolkata, on January 20, sentenced Roy to life imprisonment within the case and acknowledged that his offence can’t be thought of the “rarest of uncommon crimes.”
Nonetheless, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities challenged the particular court docket order and approached Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi on Tuesday, transferring the plea for the dying sentence of Roy.
After the matter got here up for listening to on Wednesday morning, CBI challenged the petition by the state authorities, elevating questions on the grounds on which it might make such an attraction.
In response to information company IANS, the deputy solicitor basic, Rajdeep Majumdar, argued that it was solely the probe company, which was dealing with the case, and the sufferer’s dad and mom who might transfer such a plea at a better court docket, and never the state authorities, which isn’t a celebration within the case.
The West Bengal authorities had appealed to the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s Division Bench in opposition to the trial court docket’s life imprisonment verdict convicting Sanjay Roy within the RG Kar case. The subsequent listening to within the case can be held on January 27.
Advocate Common Kishore Dutta has approached the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak, searching for the dying penalty for Sanjay Roy. The matter has been allowed to be filed.
The horrific incident befell on the state-run RG Kar Medical Faculty in Kolkata final yr when the physique of the physician was recovered from a seminar corridor inside the R.G. Kar premises on the morning of August 9, 2024.
The preliminary investigation was carried out by the Kolkata Police. It was the state police that first arrested Roy. Nonetheless, after 5 days of preliminary investigation by town police, the cost of the probe into the matter was handed over to the CBI by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
On this level, Majumdar additionally referred to a case by CBI in opposition to former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the place the state authorities’s plea was not thought of by the Patna Excessive Courtroom.
Nonetheless, the state advocate basic, Kishor Datta, whereas showing on behalf of the state authorities, in his counterargument stated that on this explicit case, the West Bengal authorities can attraction underneath Part 377 (which permits the state authorities to attraction a sentence if it considers it insufficient) and Part 378 (regarding appeals in opposition to acquittal orders for cognizable and non-bailable offences) of the Code of Felony Process (CRPC). Lastly, the division bench determined to listen to the argument on the admissibility of the state’s authorities’s plea within the matter on January 27.
(With company inputs)
