“In RG Kar case, at every phase and stage, we are seeing injustice”: CPI-M leader

New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): CPI-M leader Brinda Karat on Monday expressed dissatisfaction over the punishment given to the convict in the RG Kar case, saying that the state government should also have been held accountable.

“Kerala court gave death sentence to a girl because the girl was proven to have poisoned her boyfriend… It shows the failure of our laws to bring justice in cases of crimes against women, particularly rape and murder because there are such different standards which are being applied. The other aspect is that there has been a destruction of evidence,” Karat told ANI.

“Who along with Sanjay Roy is guilty? Which is the nexus? How is it that the state government is defended? In the RG Kar case, at every phase and stage, we are seeing injustice. The main accountability must be with the state government and the way that it has tried to conceal the facts of this case,” the CPIM leader alleged.

Rekha Sharma, Rajya Sabha MP and former chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) claimed that there were lapses in the initial probe in the case by Kolkata Police.

“It is very unfortunate. I think the investigations done by Kolkata Police were presented in front of the CBI and because of the shortcomings in the investigation, the convict was sentenced to life imprisonment and not death penalty. The victim’s family and all of us are really sad. It is the insensitivity of the judges that such a huge case was not called rarest of the rare cases,” she told ANI.

The Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court gave life imprisonment to the accused Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case on Monday. A fine of Rs 50,000 was also imposed.

The rape and murder of a trainee doctor whose body was found on August 9 in the hospital’s seminar room, sparked widespread protests. Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer at the hospital, was arrested in connection with the crime.