RG Kar Rape-Murder Case: Court To Pronounce Verdict Today

Kolkata: The crucial verdict on the rape and murder of a woman doctor of state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata will be delivered at a special court in the city on Saturday.

Civic volunteer Sanjay Roy is the “sole prime accused” in the rape and murder crime.

Any observations of the judge of the special court, besides pronouncing the conviction of Roy, will throw any light on the aspect of much-talked-about aspect of tampering and altering the evidence during the initial phase of investigation carried by Kolkata Police before the case was handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Calcutta High Court.

The CBI during the entire phase of the investigation filed just one charge sheet in the case where it identified Roy as the “sole prime accused” in the rape and murder crime.

Roy was initially arrested by the Kolkata Police just a day after the body of the victim doctor was recovered from a seminar hall of RG Kar premises in the morning of August 2024.

Although the CBI arrested the former and controversial principal of RG Kar Sandip Ghosh and the former SHO of Tala Police Station Abhijit Mondal on charges of tampering and altering the evidence, both were granted “default bail" later by the same special court since the CBI failed to file supplementary charge sheet against them within 90 days from the date of their arrest.