Sanjay Roy has been convicted of rape and murder of an RG Kar postgraduate trainee doctor by the Sealdah CBI court in Kolkata.

Judge Anirban Das said crime did not fall under “rarest of the rare” category as justification for not giving death penalty to Sanjay Roy.

Sealdah court Judge Anirban Das said it is not the rarest of rare case and added that the victim's family is to be given compensation of Rs 10 lakhs for the death of the victim and also Rs 7 lakhs.

Sealdah Court in Kolkata has pronounced life imprisonment to the convict Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case. Sealdah Court in Kolkata found Sanjay Roy guilty of the brutal rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the premises of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital.

A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death on Monday after he was convicted of rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The

Sanjay Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kolkata court for the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College. Roy claimed innocence,

Notably, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had pushed for death sentence for Roy. In the court Roy opposed death penality. "I am being framed, and have not committed any crime. I have not done anything and still, I have been held guilty," Roy told the court ahead of sentencing in the case," the convict said as reported by PTI.

An Indian court awarded the life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata. The woman's body was found in a classroom at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug.

In the RG Kar medical college rape case, the verdict is expected to be announced Today , and the hearing is ongoing at the Sialda Court. The CBI lawyer has demanded the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the accused in the rape case that occurred at RG Kar Medical College.