{"id":351897,"date":"2025-01-18T06:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=351897"},"modified":"2025-01-23T05:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:24:22","slug":"rg-kar-verdict-political-slugfest-erupts-in-bengal-after-sanjay-roys-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rg-kar-verdict-political-slugfest-erupts-in-bengal-after-sanjay-roys-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"RG Kar Verdict : \u00a0Political Slugfest Erupts in Bengal after Sanjay Roy\u2019s Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kolkata: <\/strong> Just hours after a special court in Kolkata convicted civic volunteer Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on Saturday, a political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after the verdict, Trinamool Congress\u2019 state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said that Roy\u2019s conviction proves that the initial investigation by Kolkata Police in the case was in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome people resorted to unnecessarily mud-slinging in the matter. Today it is proved that they were spreading lies. The investigation by the Kolkata Police was in the right direction. But some leftists, leftist extremist forces, some hardcore anti-Trinamool Congress sections and a section of the medical practitioners tried to mislead people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CBI was handed over the investigation midway. But their investigation too proved that Kolkata Police was carrying out the probe on the right lines,\u201d Ghosh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, BJP West Bengal chief and Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar said it is not yet clear as to what kind of \u201ctampering\u201d of evidence took place during the first five days after the crime when Kolkata Police was handling the initial investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDoubts still prevail on this issue. For the time being Sanjay Roy is convicted. If he is guilty he deserves the highest punishment. But had the right evidence been there the fallout could have been different,\u201d Majumdar claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPI(M) leader Sayandip Mitra while the conviction of Roy in the crime of rape and murder is justified, it is yet to be clear who are actual \u201cmasterminds in the larger conspiracy\u201d who steered Roy to conduct the barbaric act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll we want now is the faces of these masterminds surface,\u201d Mitra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, as soon as Roy was convicted, he shouted within the court claiming innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have not done anything. Why those who were responsible were allowed to go freely? I am not guilty. The conspiracy was framed by many,\u201d Roy shouted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge then assured him that he would be allowed to speak on Monday before pronouncing the sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolkata:  Just hours after a special court in Kolkata convicted civic volunteer Sanjay Roy for the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on Saturday, a political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal. Soon after the verdict, Trinamool Congress\u2019 state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":351898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2014],"tags":[18475,19082,19083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351900,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351897\/revisions\/351900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/351898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}