RG Kar rape-murder convict Roy moves HC seeking acquittal

Time of India

09-07-2025

Kolkata: Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, approached the Calcutta High Court seeking acquittal. Roy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the case.
The appeal was filed before the division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi. It is likely to be heard on July 16. Stating that the case was not 'rarest of rare', the trial court sentenced Roy to life imprisonment.
Earlier, both the state and CBI moved the high court seeking enhancement of the sentence to death. The same bench admitted CBI's appeal and is to hear the enhancement appeal as well. Roy's counsel moved the HC challenging the life imprisonment awarded by the trial court.
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The defence counsel during the trial prayed for consideration of life imprisonment as an alternative option. It was also submitted that reformative and rehabilitation policy may be considered at the time of sentence pronouncement. The counsel also drew the trial court's attention to a research paper published by the National Law University, Delhi, focusing on the chapter "Life Experiences Mitigating Factors.
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During the trial, Sanjay Roy said "I can't say" as many as 56 times to the prosecution's 104 questions. However, he said "yes" to whether it was him shown in the CCTV footage at the chest department of the medical college on Aug 9. Roy's explanation was that he went there to attend to a patient and claimed that he forgot his Bluetooth earphone on the patient bed.
The trial judge pointed out that he was unable to provide the patient's details.
It was pointed out that the onus was on Roy to prove that he was at the male ward and not at the seminar hall at that time. However, he did not try to call anyone as a witness to this fact.
The reply of the accused was that while he was in police custody at Lalbazar, he was beaten by the cops and his hair was pulled. The accused's counsel raised the suspicion that the said hair might have been be planted to implicate the accused falsely. "It is surprising that no such suggestive questions were put to the cops concerned during the cross-examination," the trial judge observed.