Calcutta HC Reserves Order On Appeals Seeking Death Penalty For Sanjay Roy In RG Kar Case

Both the CBI and the state government separately prayed for capital punishment for the convict.

The court's division bench, presided by Justice Debangsu Basak, heard both the state government and the CBI, who argued that the January 20 order of the Sealdah sessions court sentencing Roy, the sole convict in the crime, to life imprisonment till death was inadequate.

The CBI claimed before the bench that only it has the right to move an appeal before the high court on the grounds of inadequacy of sentence since it was the investigation and prosecution agency of the case.

The state government argued that apart from the central agency, it too can move an appeal claiming inadequacy of sentence given by the trial court.