CBI had sought death penalty for convict Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case, however, the trial court sentenced him to life

Sentencing Roy to life in prison, a Kolkata court said Monday that the case didn’t meet the criteria to be classified as ‘rarest of rare’, and therefore, did not merit death penalty.

The CBI on Friday urged the Calcutta High Court to schedule an early hearing on its appeal seeking death penalty for R G Kar Hospital rape-murder case convict Sanjay Roy. The investigating agency moved the court after the trial court rejected its demand earlier for death penalty to Roy,