Court ordered West Bengal government to pay ₹17 lakh compensation to victim’s family while announcing life-imprisonment to Sanjay Roy. Alleging that the victim died on duty, the trial court decreed that it is responsibility of the state.

The Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court awarded life imprisonment to the accused Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case and also fined Rs 50,000 to the accused. During the hearing of the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation sought 'capital punishment' for the accused Sanjay Roy.

Kolkata court sentences Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for rape and murder, with compensation awarded to victim's family.

“I’m not satisfied,” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday after a Sealdah court sentenced Sanjay Roy — convicted in the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital — to life imprisonment.

The Kolkata court asked the state to pay a compensation of Rs 17 lakh to the family of the deceased doctor, however, the victim's parents said they only wanted justice.

A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment till death on Monday after he was convicted of rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

In the RG Kar medical college rape case, the verdict is expected to be announced Today , and the hearing is ongoing at the Sialda Court. The CBI lawyer has demanded the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the accused in the rape case that occurred at RG Kar Medical College.

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Kolkata is set to announce the quantum of punishment today, January 20, Monday afternoon for Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted of raping and murdering a 31-year-old duty doctor at the West Bengal-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital,