Court verdict in Kolkata RG Kar hospital rape-murder case on Jan 18

The verdict will be pronounced 68 days after the trial process in the matter started at the special court on November 11 last year. 

IANS | 9th January 2025 | Kolkata: A special court in Kolkata will pronounce, on January 18, the verdict in the ghastly rape and murder of a junior female doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.  

The verdict will be pronounced 68 days after the trial process in the matter started at the special court on November 11 last year. 

The body of the doctor was recovered from the seminar hall within the RG Kar premises on the morning of August 9 last year.  The initial investigation into the matter was carried out by a special investigation team (SIT) of Kolkata Police, who arrested civic volunteer Sanjay Roy as the prime accused in the case. 

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which later took over the investigation, too—in its only charge sheet—also identified Sanjay Roy as the “sole prime accused” in the crime of rape and murder. 

Former RG Kar college principal as sole accused in rape case

During the course of interrogation, CBI sleuths arrested the former, controversial principal of RG Kar Sandip Ghosh and the former SHO of Tala Police Station, Abhijit Mondal, on charges of tampering with the evidence.

However, both were recently granted default bail by the special court recently because the CBI failed to file a supplementary charge sheet against both of them within 90 days from the date of their arrests. 

The CBI came under scathing criticism from different sections of society over the development. Ghosh is still behind bars because of a parallel probe against him by CBI in the case of financial irregularities at R.G. Kar, while Mondal is currently out on bail. 

In the meantime, the parents of the victim first approached the Calcutta High Court and then the Supreme Court with a plea for a fresh probe to unravel the “bigger” conspiracy behind the crime.

PTI | Kolkata : Judgement in the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year will be delivered on January 18 by the designated judge of Sealdah court here.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which was handed over the probe into the case from the Kolkata Police by the Calcutta High Court, prayed for awarding of death sentence to Sanjay Roy, who was charged with the gruesome crime.

Hearing in the trial was concluded on Thursday, following which the additional district and sessions judge of Sealdah court said that the judgement will be delivered on January 18.

 

Maintaining that other persons were also involved in the crime, the parents of the victim postgraduate trainee said that they expect that they will also be arrested and tried before the court.

The victim's body was found in the seminar room of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Roy was arrested by the Kolkata Police the next day.

The in-camera trial in the rape and murder case commenced on November 12.

The crime led to nationwide outrage and prolonged protests by junior doctors in Kolkata, demanding justice for the victim and stronger security measures in government hospitals.