This Monday, January 20, the man who raped and killed an intern who was resting after her night on duty in an Indian hospital was sentenced to life in prison. A sentence deemed insufficient.
The story particularly shook Indian society. Friday August 9, a 31-year-old trainee doctor, exhausted by her 36 hours on call, fell asleep in a seminar room at the Kolkata departmental hospital, in eastern India, due to lack of a rest room. The next morning, his colleagues discovered his lifeless, half-naked body on the stage, with serious injuries. “She was bleeding from her eyes, mouth and private parts and had injuries on her stomach, left leg, neck, right hand, ring finger and lips,” India Today reported at the time.
The young woman’s autopsy then revealed that this doctor from the RG Kar Medical College had been sexually assaulted before being strangled, then suffocated. In the process, a volunteer working in the hospital, Sanjay Roy, 33, who was drunk at the time of the tragedy, was arrested. Tried at the start of 2025, the individual said he was “the victim of a frame-up for no reason”. “I was not allowed to speak,” he said. The police forced me to sign many papers. I didn’t have the chance to speak. »
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A justification that was not heard by the court, which sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment, according to India Today. On the other hand, the judge refused to sentence him to life imprisonment, despite requests from the victim’s family.
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“Not a particularly rare crime”
“This is an extremely rare case. The victim was a meritorious student and an asset to society. This incident shook the entire community. The parents lost their daughter. If even doctors are not safe, then what can we say? Only the death penalty can restore trust in society. We must restore society’s confidence in the judicial system,” argued their lawyer. Judge Das’ response: “I do not consider this to be a particularly rare crime.”
A statement that neither the victim’s parents nor Indian society accepts. Hundreds of doctors have already announced their intention to strike and demonstrate “until justice is done”. Sanjay Roy’s lawyer has indicated his intention to appeal.
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