After Sealdah Court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape and murder case, to life imprisonment, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla accused Trinamool Congress and West Bengal police of 'manipulating many things and said that's why the case got weakened.

The court also ordered Roy to pay Rs 50,000 as fine and directed West Bengal government to pay Rs 1,700,000 as compensation -- Rs 1,000,000 for death and Rs 700, 000 for rape on duty -- to the victim's family.

The Sealdah Court in West Bengal on Monday sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment after he was found guilty in the RG Kar rape and murder case

The Sealdah Civil and Criminal Court awarded life imprisonment to the accused Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case and also fined Rs 50,000 to the accused. During the hearing of the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation sought 'capital punishment' for the accused Sanjay Roy.

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Kolkata is set to announce the quantum of punishment today, January 20, Monday afternoon for Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted of raping and murdering a 31-year-old duty doctor at the West Bengal-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital,

Judge Anirban Das said crime did not fall under “rarest of the rare” category as justification for not giving death penalty to Sanjay Roy.