Amid tight security arrangements, medic
murder convict Sanjay Roy, a Civic Volunteer, was on Monday escorted to the Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court in central Kolkata, where Additional and Sessions judge Justice Anirban Das to pronounce the quantum of punishment, court sources said.
The judge is expected to hold the court at around 12-30 hours.
He is
expected to hear Roy’s statement before coming to a decision after
hearing both CBI counsel Anuraj Modi and the advocates of the
victim’s parents, sources added.
Civic Volunteer Sanjay Roy was escorted from the Presidency jail
around 1020 am by a fleet of convoy cars and took him into the court
premises in 20 minutes amid tight security by some 500 Kolkata
Personnel under the directive of the two senior officers in the rank
of Deputy Police Commissioner.
The Police, meanwhile, denied permission to hold rallies of two
organisations- Doctors Forum and Justice for Avaya- anticipating law
and order problems in and around the court and central part of the
city.
Sanjay Roy, who was convicted on Saturday of raping and
murdering a 31-year-old duty doctor inside the state-run RG Kar
Medical College and Hospital in the city on August 9.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das on Saturday
declared Roy guilty of rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at
the hospital on August 9 last year.
Sanjay Roy was found guilty of sexually assaulting the doctor and
throttling her to death. He was convicted by the judge under Sections
64, 66 and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The charges under which Roy has been convicted entail a minimum
sentence of life imprisonment, while the maximum can be death
sentence.
