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.

Kolkata: A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to imprisonment till death Monday after he was convicted of the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

A Kolkata court is set to announce the sentencing of Sanjay Roy, convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9

Judge Anirban Das said crime did not fall under “rarest of the rare” category as justification for not giving death penalty to Sanjay Roy.

Kolkata court sentences Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for rape and murder, with compensation awarded to victim's family.

The Sealdah Court sentenced Sanjoy Roy, the accused in the Kolkata trainee doctor rape and murder case to life imprisonment. The court was of the view that the incident was not ‘rarest of rare’ case to grant death penalty for the convict.

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

Sanjay Roy, found guilty of raping and murdering a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court also ordered him to pay Rs 10 lakh to the doctor's family, a fine of Rs 50,000, and instructed the state government to give Rs 17 lakh as compensation to the family.

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.

Sanjay Roy has been convicted in the RG Kar rape and murder case of a junior doctor by the Sealdah CBI Court in Kolkata. The court’s decision was based on forensic evidence and DNA matches, leading to a significant punishment for Roy.