Sitting near the door to her home in Sambhunath Pandit Lane, some 6 km from the Sealdah court, Malati Roy had been waiting for the verdict in the R G Kar Hospital rape-murder case in which her son Sanjoy Roy was the accused.
Told that he had been found guilty by the court, Malati said, “I have three daughters, I understand their (the victim’s parents) pain. … Let him get any punishment he deserves. Even if the court says hang him, I will accept it.”
Roy’s sister Sabita, who lives down the lane, said, “What my brother has done is something unthinkable and horrific. My heart breaks saying this but he should get the ultimate punishment if he has done it. The victim was a woman like me, and a doctor.”
Roy’s mother and sister did not visit him while he was in custody during the trial.
Kolkata Police arrested Roy on August 10, a day after the rape and murder of the junior doctor.
He was arrested from the barracks of a Kolkata armed police battalion – a former boxer, he became a civic volunteer in 2019.
After the CBI took over the case, Roy was questioned by the agency and later sent to judicial custody.
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