Solely CBI Can, Not State Govt: Probe Company Opposes Mamata Govt’s Plea In opposition to Life Time period In RG Kar Case | India Information
RG Kar Rape-Homicide Case Verdict: Within the recent updates pertaining to the RG Kar rape and homicide case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday, challenged the West Bengal authorities’s plea at a division bench of Calcutta Excessive Courtroom searching for the “dying penalty” for Sanjay Roy, the only convict within the case of the rape-murder of a girl physician of the state-run faculty and hospital.
Whether or not the state authorities’s petition on this rely might be admissible or not might be heard on the similar division bench on January 27. This comes two days after a particular courtroom in Kolkata, on January 20, sentenced Roy to life imprisonment within the case and said that his offence can’t be thought of the “rarest of uncommon crimes.”
Nevertheless, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities challenged the particular courtroom order and approached Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi on Tuesday, transferring the plea for the dying sentence of Roy.
After the matter got here up for listening to on Wednesday morning, CBI challenged the petition by the state authorities, elevating questions on the grounds on which it might make such an attraction.
In keeping with information company IANS, the deputy solicitor basic, Rajdeep Majumdar, argued that it was solely the probe company, which was dealing with the case, and the sufferer’s dad and mom who might transfer such a plea at the next courtroom, and never the state authorities, which isn’t a celebration within the case.
The West Bengal authorities had appealed to the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s Division Bench towards the trial courtroom’s life imprisonment verdict convicting Sanjay Roy within the RG Kar case. The subsequent listening to within the case might be held on January 27.
Advocate Basic Kishore Dutta has approached the division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak, searching for the dying penalty for Sanjay Roy. The matter has been allowed to be filed.
The horrific incident occurred on the state-run RG Kar Medical Faculty in Kolkata final 12 months when the physique of the physician was recovered from a seminar corridor throughout the R.G. Kar premises on the morning of August 9, 2024.
The preliminary investigation was carried out by the Kolkata Police. It was the state police that first arrested Roy. Nevertheless, after 5 days of preliminary investigation by the town police, the cost of the probe into the matter was handed over to the CBI by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
On this level, Majumdar additionally referred to a case by CBI towards former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the place the state authorities’s plea was not thought of by the Patna Excessive Courtroom.
Nevertheless, the state advocate basic, Kishor Datta, whereas showing on behalf of the state authorities, in his counterargument mentioned that on this explicit case, the West Bengal authorities can attraction underneath Part 377 (which permits the state authorities to attraction a sentence if it considers it insufficient) and Part 378 (referring to appeals towards acquittal orders for cognizable and non-bailable offences) of the Code of Legal Process (CRPC). Lastly, the division bench determined to listen to the argument on the admissibility of the state’s authorities’s plea within the matter on January 27.
(With company inputs)
