RG Kar rape-murder case: Kolkata court holds Sanjay Roy as guilty, quantum of punishment to be announced on Jan 20

The judgement was pronounced by Anirban Das, the additional district and sessions judge of the Sealdah court

A Kolkata court on Saturday, while delivering its verdict in the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case, pronounced prime accused Sanjay Roy as guilty. The court said the quantum of punishment will be announced on Monday (January 20).

The case centers around the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate medical trainee on August 9, whose body was found in a seminar room of the state-run hospital in Kolkata.

The Kolkata Police, which was investigating the case initially arrested Roy on August 10, a day after the medic's body was recovered from the hospital. The Calcutta High Court later transferred the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

“I have been falsely implicated. I have not done this. Those who have done so are being let go. One IPS is involved,” accused Sanjay Roy said, according to news agency ANI.

The judge, however, mentioned that he would be given an opportunity to speak on Monday prior to the pronouncement of the sentence.

The verdict was announced almost two months after the in-camera trial started in November 2024, and 162 days after the brutal crime took place on August 9, 2024.

Roy was found guilty under Sections 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) that governs rape, and Sections 66 and 103 (1) of the Act, which deals with punishments for death and murder.

Section 103 (1) of BNS entails a maximum punishment of death or life imprisonment.

Earlier today, the victim's father expressed dissatisfaction with the CBI probe in the case.

"Our lawyer and CBI told us not to go to the court. I have no idea about the recent court proceedings...CBI never called me anywhere, they came to our residence once or twice but whenever we asked them about the investigation, they always said it was underway. There were bites on my daughter's neck but a swab was not collected from there. In the post-mortem report, there was no concrete evidence. CBI is not trying much. There is someone involved in this," he told ANI.