The court found the former Kolkata Police civic volunteer guilty last Saturday. Judge Monday informed Roy he can appeal before HC against the sentencing. Roy maintains he is innocent.

An Indian court awarded a 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, rejecting demands for the death penalty and saying it was not a rare crime.

Sanjay Roy, guilty of raping and killing a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, was awarded life imprisonment by a Kolkata court on Monday. The court said he wasn't awarded a death penalty as the case was not in the 'rarest of the rare' category.

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

A special court in Kolkata, on Monday, sentenced Sanjay Roy, the sole accused in the case of ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, to life imprisonment.

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A Kolkata court has sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping and murdering a doctor at RG Kar Medical College. While avoiding the death penalty, the court mandated hefty fines and compensation for the victim's family.

Sanjay Roy was found guilty of raping the 31-year-old trainee doctor and throttling her to death by the judge under Sections 64, 66 and 103(1) of the BNS.

On Monday, a Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the rape-murder case of a 34-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, to life imprisonment and noted that the case was not in the 'rarest of the rare' category for a death penalty.

The rape and murder shocked the nation, igniting protests from junior doctors in West Bengal and demands for justice and improved safety measures in government hospitals.