RG Kar Rape-Murder Case News

The 31-year-old postgraduate trainee was found dead in a seminar hall in the emergency building of RG Kar Hospital, sparking widespread protests. 

A special court in Kolkata, on January 20, sentenced Roy to life imprisonment in the case and stated that his offence cannot be considered the “rarest of rare crimes.”

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had demanded the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, calling the crime in the ‘rarest of rare case category.’

RG Kar rape-murder verdict was delivered over five months after the shocking incident that gripped the nation. 

Sanjay Roy, who was a civic volunteer with the city police, was charged for the heinous crime.

Sealdah Court grants bail to Dr. Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal in rape and murder case after CBI missed chargesheet deadline.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the father of the deceased woman medic said, "I have spoken to him (Amit Shah). He has called me (for a meeting). I cannot talk much about it, but the meeting will take place."  

This comes after Mamata Banerjee issued an appeal to the junior doctors to withdraw their fast-unto-death demonstration and come for discussions.

Doctors cautioned the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of resuming their total cease-work protest unless their demands are not fulfilled.

A special court here on Friday extended till November 4 the judicial custody of former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, and the ex-Station House Officer of Tala Police Station, Abhijit Mondal -- arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of the state-run facility within its premises in August this year. 

The Calcutta HC on August 23 ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities at the hospital from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the central agency.  

Chief advisor to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Alapan Bandyopadhyay said that the resignation letter is not considered till the time it has been sent by the employee personally.

In the email, Pant also urged the six junior doctors to withdraw their ongoing fast-unto-death agitation, which entered the seventh day on Friday.

Those expelled include doctors, house staff, and interns for allegedly threatening others to fail examinations or get them ousted from the hostel, forcing other juniors to join a particular political party, sexual harassment and misconduct, forceful collection of money, lodging of false FIRs against students, and physical violence.  

While CBI is conducting parallel probes against Ghosh in both the cases of financial irregularities and the brutal rape and murder of the junior doctor, the investigating officials have also taken Pandey into custody in the case of financial irregularities.  

Braving the incessant drizzle, junior doctors holding one big clock in their hands reiterated their demands including the directive to form a central inquiry committee for disciplinary proceedings against alleged perpetrators involved in "threat culture" in all medical colleges of West Bengal, among others.

The latest protest against the state government marked a fresh escalation of the doctors' ongoing agitation for improved safety measures for healthcare workers.

The decision of medics was taken after three doctors and three nurses were assaulted following the death of a patient at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital near Kolkata on Friday night.

A designated CBI court, while denying, has observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation against him is grave and could attract capital punishment if proved.  

The CBI, during its submission in the Sealdah court on Friday, said that Ghosh has not been cooperating with the investigators.