Leaders and doctors on Monday criticised the sentence of life imprisonment for the convict in the RG Kar rape-murder case by the Sealdah court, demanding a death penalty for this heinous crime.
"It is a norm in our judicial system that death sentence is given in rarest of cases. The judge must have covered the evidence and brutality of the crime. Second thing is that he must have considered the personal circumstances of the convict..." Luthra said speaking to ANI.
After Sealdah Court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape and murder case, to life imprisonment, the father of the trainee doctor raised questions on the investigation conducted by CBI and Kolkata Police, saying that "we want justice, not compensation."
"I learned about the sentencing from the media. We have always demanded capital punishment and we continue to stand by it. However, this is the court's decision and I can't say much about this. For three other cases, Kolkata police ensured capital punishment through thorough investigations c
According to a release, while the Commission had initially advocated for the imposition of the death penalty, it acknowledges the court's decision to impose a sentence of life imprisonment for the convict.
After Sealdah Court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape and murder case, to life imprisonment on Monday, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that common people of Bengal are disappointed with the verdict as it is not as per expectation of them.
After Sealdah Court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape and murder case, to life imprisonment, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla accused Trinamool Congress and West Bengal police of 'manipulating many things,' that's why the case got weakened.
The Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court has sentenced life imprisonment to the accused Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case on Monday. Along with this, the court has also fined Rs 50,000 to the accused.
Greeshma was given capital punishment in the high-profile Sharon Raj murder case, where the court found her guilty of poisoning her 23-year-old boyfriend with pesticide-laced ayurvedic decoction. The Neyyattinkara Additional Sessions Court on Monday sentenced her to death.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central government to decide by the March 18 petition of death-row prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, seeking commutation of the death sentence awarded to him for the assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995.
The court observed that Greeshma betrayed the trust of her boyfriend Sharon, manipulating him emotionally. She has no evidence to support claims of mental pressure from Sharon, the court said