Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kolkata on Monday, The Telegraph reported.

Additional district and sessions judge Anirban Das refused to impose death penalty, stating that the crime could not be classified as “rarest of rare”, the test to impose capital punishment.

The Court also ordered the West Bengal government to grant ₹17 lakh as compensation to the family of the deceased victim.

The judge had convicted Das on January 18 after an in-camera trial that lasted 57 days

The Court also criticised both the Kolkata police and the RG Kar Hospital for various lapses on their part in handling the case, but added that these lapses were not fatal to the prosecution’s case.

It had kept the matter for today to decide the sentence to be handed down to Roy.

The CBI, which had investigated the matter, sought death penalty for Roy but the Court declined.

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