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RG Kar Verdict
Civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy is the only accused in the RG Kar rape-murder case | Photo courtesy: Video grab

Kolkata court to pronounce verdict on RG Kar rape-murder case today

| @indiablooms | Jan 18, 2025, at 11:10 am

Kolkata/IBNS: A sessions court in the Sealdah area of Kolkata will on Saturday pronounce the verdict in the case pertaining to the gruesome rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in the city's government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year.

The court is likely to pronounce the verdict at 2:30 pm.

As per the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chargesheet, civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy is the only man who has been accused of the crime that had sent shockwaves across the country and sparked sweeping protests in Kolkata, its neighbouring districts and some major Indian cities.

Though Sanjoy was arrested swiftly by the Kolkata Police after the incident occurred, the junior doctors and protesters suspected more people's involvement in the crime which occurred on the intervening night of August 8 and 9, 2024.

On the basis of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the Calcutta High Court transferred the case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) fuming over police and administration's handling of the case.

Thousands of people took to streets almost on a regular basis in Kolkata and its neighbourhoods, taking out night vigils, candle light marches, forming symbolic human chains on roads demanding justice for the victim, which was allegedly raped and murdered at the seminar room where she went to rest after completing her shift.

The case also led to the unravelling of the corruption charges against erstwhile RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh levelled by the students.

Ghosh's posting to an equally important post at some other college by the government following protests against him over the rape-murder case had stirred row.

Later, Ghosh was arrested in the corruption as well as the rape-murder case. Though he was granted bail in the rape-murder case, the former principal is still in jail over the corruption.

Prior to CBI's investigation, the state administration came under the scanner over its alleged cover-up, delay in filing FIRs, demolition work near the crime scene, posting of Ghosh to the same post at another college after his resignation from RG Kar.

Tala Police Station OC, who was also arrested, has been granted bail.

The junior doctors went on ceasework in multiple phases and continued their protests until they met with chief minister Mamata Banerjee on several occasions for a resolution.

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