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Amid tight security medic murder convict Sanjay Roy escorted to Sealdah Court

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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.

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