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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banarjee on Monday said that they will move to Calcutta HC to seek death penalty for RG Kar convict the sole accused in the rape and murder of a lady doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year.
She in a statement issued on Monday said that the state government will be seeking the “death penalty” at the Calcutta High Court for the victim.
“I strongly feel that it is a heinous crime that warrants capital punishment. We will plead for capital punishment of the convict at the High Court now,” the statement by the Chief Minister said.
According to her, she is deeply shocked at the judgment of the special court which does not consider the crime as the “rarest of rare crimes.” “I am convinced that it is indeed a rarest of rare cases which demands capital punishment. How could the judgment come to the conclusion that it is not the rarest of rare cases? We want to insist upon the death penalty in this most sinister and sensitive case,” the Chief Minister’s statement read.
“Recently, in the last 3/4 months, we have been able to ensure capital/ maximum punishment for convicts in such crimes. Then, why, in this case, has capital punishment not been awarded?” the Chief Minister’s statement added.
Earlier in the day, immediately after the sentence was pronounced, the Chief Minister expressed her displeasure and dissatisfaction over the quantum of the sentence.
“We demanded the ‘death penalty’ for the convict. I don’t know howhHad the case been in our hands (read state police or Kolkata Police), the death sentence would have been pronounced much earlier,” the Chief Minister told media persons just after the sentence was pronounced by the special court.
