The trail court had sought death penalty for Sanjay Roy but was turned down by the trail court, where Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das said that the crime did not fall under the ‘rarest of the rare’ category.

The Sealdah court rejected CBI's plea seeking death penalty for Roy, saying the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the rare" category.

Kolkata: Hearing of RG Kar issue at Supreme Court got deferred by a week. A bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, along with Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan, was hearing the suo motu case on RG Kar rape and murder incident which got adjourned till January 29.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) opposed the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government's plea before the Calcutta High Court against the life imprisonment awarded to civic volunteer Sanjay Roy by a CBI court, the accused in the horrific RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case.

The West Bengal government has already approached the high court, challenging the verdict and seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy.

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in West Bengal's Kolkata pronounced a life imprisonment sentence today, January 20, for Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted of raping and murdering a 31-year-old duty doctor inside the West Bengal government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

Sealdah court sentenced R G Kar murder case accused Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment. Sanjay Roy was accused of the rape & murder of on-duty junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital in August 2024.