Sanjay Roy, convicted of raping and murdering an on-duty physician at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been dropped at a courtroom within the metropolis for the pronouncement of the sentence. Anirban Das, the Additional district and classes choose of the Sealdah courtroom, had on Saturday declared the 33-year-old responsible of rape and homicide of the trainee physician on August 9 final yr.
Sanjay Roy, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was discovered responsible of sexually assaulting the physician and strangling her underneath Sections 64, 66 and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Section 66 (punishment for inflicting demise or leading to a persistent vegetative state of the sufferer) offers for a punishment of not lower than 20 years that will lengthen to imprisonment for all times, which might imply imprisonment for the rest of that particular person’s pure life, or with demise. Section 103(1) (homicide) of BNS offers for the demise penalty or imprisonment for all times. Section 64 (rape) of the BNS ensures a jail time period of not lower than 10 years and may go as much as life time period.