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CONSIDER DETERRENCE OVER REFORM, DEFINE RAREST OF RARE CASES
The New Indian Express
|January 22, 2025
THERE is a wave of public anger over the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder verdict.
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The accused, Sanjoy Roy, was sentenced to imprisonment till death and fined 50,000 for brutalising and throttling to death a trainee doctor in the Kolkata hospital. When the CBI took over the case, it was widely expected that Roy would be handed the death penalty. But according to the local sessions court judge, the crime did not fall in the "rarest of rare" category. The victim's disappointed parents and West Bengal government are likely to appeal in a higher court.
This story is from the January 22, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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