Convict Sanjay Roy, who has been held guilty of raping and murdering an on-duty trainee doctor at the West Bengal government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Monday told a Kolkata court that he was innocent and had been wrongly held guilty.
Sanjay Roy was on Saturday held guilty of sexually assaulting the trainee doctor and throttling her to death in August last year.
The judge said the pronunciation of punishment will be announced at 2.45pm.
"I am being framed, and have not committed any crime. I have not done anything and still, I have been held guilty," news agency PTI quoted Sanjay Roy as saying in the Sealdah court ahead of sentencing in the case.
Sanjay's lawyer said during the proceedings, "Even if it is a rarest of rare case, there should be scope for reformation. The court has to show why the convict is not worth reformation or rehabilitation. The public prosecutor has to present evidence and give reasons why the person is not worth reformation and should be completely eliminated from society…"
The CBI lawyer pleaded for the highest penalty for the convict.
"We pray for the highest penalty to maintain people's faith in society," the agency's counsel told the court.
The lawyer of the family replied, "I want death sentence as maximum punishment."
Sanjay Roy was found guilty on Saturday by under Sections 64, 66 and 103(1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
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