Roy was on January 18 convicted under charges which entailed a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, while the maximum could be capital punishment.

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

An Indian court has sentenced the man convicted of raping and murdering a female doctor at a Kolkata hospital to life in prison.

A sessions court in Kolkata will pronounce today the quantum of sentence for Sanjay Roy. Follow The Hindu’s live updates

Kolkata: A Kolkata court Monday handed life imprisonment to sole accused Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last August,

The Sealdah Court in Kolkata on Monday (20 January) delivered a life imprisonment sentence to Sanjay Roy, the convict in the rape-murder case of a post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Although demands for the death penalty were rejected, the ruling triggered protests.

Sanjay Roy was on Saturday held guilty of sexually assaulting the trainee doctor and throttling her to death in August last year.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had demanded the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, calling the crime in the ‘rarest of rare case category.’

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.

An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor last year – a crime that sparked nationwide protests. Sanjay Roy, 33, plans to appeal the judgment in a higher court.