Kolkata: How can’t a PGT doctor’s rape and murder inside a hospital be considered a rarest of rare crime, asked the medical fraternity here, which had carried out a movement for almost two months, demanding justice for the RG Kar victim.
Doctors said that given the Kolkaka court’s verdict, they already knew convict Sanjay Roy would either be sentenced to death or life imprisonment but what disheartened them was that a crime, which had evoked spontaneous protests across the globe, was termed “not rarest of rare”.
“With due respect to the court’s decision, it is disheartening this case has been termed ‘not rarest of rare’. The death penalty can be appealed in a higher court. Even Supreme Court took up the case suo motu. How can’t this case be rarest of rare?” Tapas Pramanick, emergency medical officer of RG Kar Medical College, said.
For him, Roy’s conviction brought about “only a partial closure”. “Till the other influential people involved are arrested, we will continue the agitation and keep up the pressure on CBI and the administration,” he said.
Meanwhile, many of the protesters who had taken to streets after the crime, said they would not get a closure till the other perpetrators were brought to justice.
“We expect the judiciary to keep this case under active supervision to identify every single culprit responsible for the heinous crime. Legal intervention is an important side of redress but not enough. We also need actionable social change, along with policy-level changes, and that is a long-term struggle,” Rimjhim Sinha, the first one who had called for the ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement on Aug 14 last year.
