New Delhi260C
Sunday, Feb 9, 2025

RG Kar rape case verdict: BJP alleges evidence was 'tampered'

RG Kar rape case verdict highlights: The 31-year-old trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
RG Kar rape case highlights: View from the outside of the civil and criminal court in Sealdah on Saturday, January 18, 2025.
RG Kar rape case highlights: View from the outside of the civil and criminal court in Sealdah on Saturday, January 18, 2025.

RG Kar rape case verdict highlights: A court in West Bengal's Kolkata on Saturday pronounced accused Sanjay Roy guilty of rape-murder of on-duty doctor at RG Kar hospital. The court will pronounce Sanjay Roy's sentence on January 20. The case pertains to a 31-year-old trainee doctor who was found dead in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata on August 9, 2024. The trainee doctor was killed after being raped....Read More

RG Kar rape case verdict | Key points

  • A 31-year-old trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in West Bengal's Kolkata on August 9, 2024. The trainee doctor was allegedly killed after being raped.
  • A civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, Sanjay Roy, was arrested on August 10 by the cops, who identified the accused through a Bluetooth earphone set that was found near the victim's body. Sanjay Roy was seen in CCTV camera footage entering the seminar hall with the device around his neck.
  • The alleged crime led to nationwide outrage and prolonged protests by junior doctors in Kolkata and across the country, demanding justice for the victim and stronger security arrangements in state-run hospitals.
  • The judgment in the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case will be delivered by additional district and sessions judge Anirban Das, 57 days after the trial commenced. The in-camera trial commenced on November 12, and 50 witnesses were examined. The hearing in the case concluded on January 9.

Follow all the updates here:
Jan 18, 2025 7:16 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: BJP alleges evidence was 'tampered'

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Union minister Sukanto Majumdar alleges that the evidence was "tampered with" by the Kolkata Police, upon which the CBI investigated the case.

He also claims that the victim might have known something that, would have “caused problems” for West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, reports ANI.

Jan 18, 2025 6:49 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: 'Sanjay Roy was not alone,' claims mother of deceased doctor

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Reacting to the conviction of Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case, the mother of the deceased doctor on Saturday said they were still waiting for other criminals to be arrested and punished. She also claims that Roy had accomplices. Read more.

Jan 18, 2025 5:07 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Won’t rest until all are punished, says mother of deceased doctor

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Welcoming the conviction of prime accused Sanjay Roy by the trial court, the mother of the deceased woman doctor says that they were still waiting for the other criminals to be arrested and punished, reports PTI.

Jan 18, 2025 4:52 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: What TMC said

RG Kar rape case verdict live: On Sealdah court pronouncing accused Sanjay Roy guilty in the RG Kar case, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh tells ANI: "... The Court has pronounced him guilty. The punishment is yet to be announced. Commenting on it right now is not appropriate but it is proven that the arrest that the Kolkata Police made within 24 hours, their focus and investigation was accurate..."

Jan 18, 2025 4:27 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: ‘We demanded maximum possible sentence,' CBI’s lawyer says

RG Kar rape case verdict live: “We demanded maximum possible punishment for Sanjay Roy,” the CBI’s lawyer in the case says.

The CBI inquiry was ordered by the Calcutta high court on August 13 amid mass protests across India. The Chief Justice of India’s bench took over the hearing on September 20 through a suo motu petition. Read more.

Jan 18, 2025 3:56 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: CPI-M leader Brinda Karat reacts to verdict

RG Kar rape case verdict live: "... Everyone knows Sanjay Rai is guilty but who are the powers behind him?... This has happened due to a corrupt nexus. The government, the principal (of RG Kar) and the whole administration are guilty because of whom such an incident took place..." CPI-M leader Brinda Karat says, according to ANI.

Jan 18, 2025 3:39 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: What Sanjay Roy said in court

At the time of the delivery of the verdict, the accused, Sanjay Roy, claimed that he was framed.

"I wear a rudraksh necklace, and if I had committed the crime, it would have snapped,” Roy said, according to PTI.

Jan 18, 2025 3:14 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: What judge said about Sanjay Roy's sentence

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Judge Anirban Das has said that the maximum possible sentence for Roy would be the death penalty, while the minimum possible sentence would be life imprisonment, reports Live Law.

Jan 18, 2025 2:57 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: 'We want strict punishment to be given,' Sukanta Majumdar says

RG Kar rape case verdict live: "The court has convicted him (Sanjay Roy), but the people of West Bengal believe that more than one person may have been involved in the incident. When the case was being investigated for five days by the Kolkata Police, evidence was tampered with in those five days...We want strict punishment to be given...The RG Kar incident has exposed that the law and order situation in West Bengal is not good..." Union minister Sukanta Majumdar tells reporters.

Jan 18, 2025 2:54 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Charges against Sanjay Roy

RG Kar rape case verdict live: The accused Sanjay Roy has been found guilty of rape and murder under sections 64, 66 and 103 (1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, reports PTI.

Jan 18, 2025 2:47 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Accused will be heard on January 20, judge says

RG Kar rape case verdict live: "The accused will be heard on Monday. Now, he is being sent to judicial custody. His punishment will be announced on Monday. I have fixed the time at 12:30 to hear the case," Additional district judge of Sealdah court says, according to ANI.

Jan 18, 2025 2:43 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: ‘I have been falsely implicated,’ accused tells court

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Accused Sanjay Roy tells the judge that he has been “falsely implicated” in the case, reports ANI

"I have been falsely implicated. I have not done this. Those who have done so are being let go. One IPS involved," Sanjay Roy claims.

Jan 18, 2025 2:35 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Court to pronounce Sanjay Roy's sentence on January 20

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Kolkata court to pronounce Sanjay Roy's sentence on January 20, reports PTI.

Jan 18, 2025 2:29 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Court finds Sanjay Roy guilty

A sessions court in Kolkata has held the main accused Sanjay Roy guilty in the RG Kar rape-murder case, reports Live Law.

Jan 18, 2025 2:17 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Judgment to be delivered at 2.30pm

RG Kar rape case verdict live: The judgment is set to be delivered at 2:30P by Judge Anirban Das in courtroom 210, reports PTI.

Jan 18, 2025 2:09 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Entire country waiting, says IMA action committee chief

On Sealdah court's upcoming verdict of RG Kar rape-murder case, Vinay Agrawal, Chairman Action Committee of IMA said, “Not only we, the entire country is eagerly waiting for the judgment. Justice should be done for our doctor. A lady doctor in a prominent medical college of a prominent state, the oldest medical college, was brutally raped, murdered brutally.”

"And in the government premises, in the hospital premises, when she was on duty, it enraged the entire country, not only the medical profession. You have seen that the entire city was burning, Bengal was burning, and other states were burning. All medical colleges were shut down. Indian Medical Association also gave a call for this thing...Stringent punishment should be given to the accused...," he told news agency ANI.

Jan 18, 2025 1:44 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Evidence was destroyed, says BJP's Poonawalla

Ahead of Sealdah Court's verdict in the RG Kar rape-murder case today, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla said the public and protesting doctors would decide if 'justice had been served'.

“The verdict will come today, but, the public and the protesting doctors will decide whether justice was served or not. It was their sense and feeling that more than one person was involved in the case,” news agency ANI quoted Poonawalla as saying.

He alleged that evidence was destroyed, and the TMC government prioritized protecting and promoting the hospital principal instead of ensuring justice for the victim.

"The way the evidence was destroyed, the way the TMC government tried to immediately protect and promote the Principal of the hospital, the attitude of the government and the police towards the victim...," he said.

Jan 18, 2025 1:14 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Accused brought to Sealdah court

Accused in the RG Kar rape and murder case has been brought to the Civil and Criminal Court, Sealdah.

The Sealdah court will announce the verdict of RG Kar rape-murder case today.

Jan 18, 2025 12:31 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Ex-NCW chief Rekha Sharma says ‘don’t think only one person is involved'

Ahead of Kolkata court's verdict of RG Kar rape-murder case today, former NCW chief and Rajya Sabha MP Rekha Sharma told news agency ANI, "...I don't think only one person is involved in this case. Those who have committed financial misconduct in this case are definitely involved in this case, even the murder. The court will take action against those people and give them the harshest punishment..."

Jan 18, 2025 12:02 PM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Accused Sanjay Roy's arrest

The Kolkata Police, which was investigating the case, initially arrested Sanjay Roy on August 10, a day after the medic's body was recovered from the seminar room of the hospital. The Calcutta High Court later transferred the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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

The hearing in Roy's trial was concluded on January 9, during which 50 witnesses were examined. The parents of the deceased doctor have claimed that other persons were involved in the crime and expected that they would also be arrested and tried before the court.

Jan 18, 2025 11:38 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: FAIMA chief patrol says ‘we demand capital punishment’

Dr Rohan Krishnan, chief patron of FAIMA said doctors demand capital punishment for the accused who raped and murdered the doctor who was on duty at the government-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital of West Bengal.

"We stand with the family of the deceased and hope that Justice is Served by the court...," he told news agency ANI.

Jan 18, 2025 11:06 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: BJP president Sukanta Majumdar hopes for justice

Union Minister and West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar expressed hope that justice will be served. He also criticized the Kolkata Police for their mishandling of the case, which resulted in the loss of crucial evidence.

"Everyone is hopeful that the court will do justice in the case and will give a correct verdict...The Kolkata Police did so much mismanagement in the case due to which no evidence was left at the spot. So now we hope that justice will prevail in the case and the accused will be punished," the BJP leader said.

Jan 18, 2025 10:39 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Victim's father says 'there's someone involved…'

On Sealdah court's verdict today of RG Kar rape-murder case, victim's father said their lawyer and CBI have told them not to go to the court. "I have no idea about the recent court proceedings...CBI never called me anywhere, they came to our residence once or twice but whenever we asked them about the investigation, they always said it was underway," he told news agency ANI.

“The victim's father said there were bites on his daughter's neck but a swab was not collected from there. ”In the post-mortem report, there was no concrete evidence. CBI is not trying much. There is someone involved in this...In the DNA report, it can be seen that 4 men and 2 women were present there. We want all the people involved in this to be punished...," he said.

Jan 18, 2025 10:27 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: BJP's Suvendu Adhikari says 'hopeful of strict action'

West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari said he is hopeful that strict action will be taken by the judiciary in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case.

"We are hopeful that strict actions will be taken by the judiciary. We should have examples so that such incidents never occur but we suspect that this was not the doing of only one person and many people were involved. The West Bengal government, health department, and the state police are also involved. We request the CBI to explore the case more and those who committed the crime and those who tried to hide the evidence should also be punished," Suvendu Adhikari told news agency PTI.

Jan 18, 2025 10:03 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: BJP leader says 'we'll know whether there are more involved'

On Sealdah court's verdict in the RG Kar rape-murder case today, BJP leader Rahul Sinha told news agency ANI, "So far there is only one main accused who will be punished today, this is the perception of the people. People also believe that there were more people involved in this case and in the coming time, through investigation, we will know about the remaining criminals too. Today, the main accused will be punished".

Jan 18, 2025 9:45 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Who will deliver the judgment?

The judgment in the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case will be delivered by additional district and sessions judge Anirban Das, 57 days after the trial commenced.

The in-camera trial commenced on November 12, and 50 witnesses were examined.

The hearing in the case concluded on January 9.

Jan 18, 2025 9:35 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: CBI seeks capital punishment for accused

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the case after it was handed over to the agency by the Calcutta High Court, has sought capital punishment for Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the RG Kar Medical college rape and murder.

The CBI has said in the court Roy was the sole perpetrator of the crime.

Jan 18, 2025 9:30 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Who is the accused?

A civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, Sanjay Roy, was arrested on August 10 by the cops, who identified the accused through a Bluetooth earphone set that was found near the victim's body. Sanjay Roy was seen in CCTV camera footage entering the seminar hall with the device around his neck.

Jan 18, 2025 9:27 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Victim's kin say probe 'half done'

A day before Kolkata court's verdict in the case, the parents of the victim of the alleged RG Kar Medical rape and murder case said that the investigation is half-done as others involved in the crime are roaming free.

Her parents said they will continue to fight until justice is delivered to their daughter whose body was found in the seminar room of the state-run hospital on August 9 last year, sparking nationwide outrage and prolonged protests.

"Sanjay (Roy) is guilty, and tomorrow's verdict will be against him. But what about other criminals who are still not caught? I can see them roaming freely. I have seen them loitering in the hospital. So, the investigation is half-done," mother of the victim told news agency PTI.

The mother also stated that biological evidence proved Roy guilty, but she believed that the administration has been shielding several others involved in the crime.

“All the evidence were either lost or erased. A large number of people were present when (the then) Police Commissioner Vineet Goel visited the crime scene. It was looking like a fish market. Those seen at the crime scene must be punished," she alleged.

Jan 18, 2025 9:25 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: What is the case?

The case pertains to a 31-year-old trainee doctor who was found dead in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata on August 9, 2024. The trainee doctor was allegedly killed after being raped.

Jan 18, 2025 9:20 AM IST

RG Kar rape case verdict live: Judgment by Kolkata court today

A court in West Bengal's Kolkata is expected to deliver the first verdict in the case pertaining to the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor inside state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital.

News india news RG Kar rape case verdict: BJP alleges evidence was 'tampered'