An Indian court has sentenced the man convicted of raping and murdering a female doctor at a Kolkata hospital to life in prison.

A Kolkata court will pronounce the quantum of punishment of Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted of raping and murdering an on-duty doctor at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Both the Bengal government and the CBI made similar prayers challenging Roy’s sentence awarded by the additional district and sessions court, Sealdah, and demanded the death penalty ...

A sessions court in Kolkata convicted Sanjay Roy for a life in prison in the rape and murder of a doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. The Judge said that it’s not a rarest of the ...

Sanjay Roy, found guilty of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College, claims innocence as the CBI pushes for the harshest penalty.

The Supreme Court has turned down a request for an urgent hearing regarding a new petition by the victim's parents, who are ...

Sanjay Roy, a former civic volunteer with the ... The shocking rape-murder of a young doctor in Kolkata that has hit the country hard, has been taken up by the Supreme Court.

The state government argued before the high court that apart from the central agency, it too can move an appeal claiming ...

The CBI will file an appeal before the Calcutta High Court, seeking death sentence for Sanjay Roy, who was sentenced to "life imprisonment until death" by a Sealdah court in ...

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Sanjay Roy, a police volunteer, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor attacked while on duty in Kolkata — a crime that sparked widespread protests ...