Modern justice must rise above the primitive instinct of "an eye for an eye" or “a tooth for a tooth” or “nail for a nail" or “a life for a life," the Court said.

Sanjay Roy was earlier awarded life imprisonment after being convicted of raping and murdering a doctor at RG Kar Medical College And Hospital.

A day after Mamata Banerjee expressed 'shock' over Sealdah Court's verdict in the RG Kar rape and murder case, the West Bengal government moved the Calcutta High Court demanding the death penalty for the convict.

The West Bengal government has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the convict in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolk

West Bengal government appeals for death penalty in doctor's rape and murder case, challenging life sentence decision.

Advocate General Kishore Dutta has filed a plea before Justice Debangshu Basak of the division bench of the high court, seeking the maximum punishment for Sanjay Roy.

The convict Sanjay Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in Kolkata on Monday in the August 2024 rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee doctor at the city’s RG Kar Medical Colleg

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday has allowed the West Bengal government to file an appeal against the special court order that sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment until death in the RG Kar hospital doctor's rape and murder case,

In response to the Sealdah Court’s life imprisonment verdict for Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape-murder case, junior doctors in Kolkata staged a protest outside the court. They expressed dissatisfaction with the sentence,