The entire Sealdah court area in Kolkata was cordoned off on Monday morning, with a three-tier barricade system and massive police deployment, ahead of the sentencing of the prime accused in the R G Kar rape-murder case.

At 10.40 am, the accused, Sanjoy Roy, was brought to court in a convoy of two police cars with blacked out windows and several police vans.

More than 500 police personnel have been deployed at the court, including Deputy commissioner, assistant commissioner, and inspectors level officers.

Sessions court judge Anirban Das will deliver the quantum of punishment to the accused. This comes over 162 days after an on-duty junior doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar room of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024. The incident led to widespread protests across the country and a major strike by doctors in West Bengal.

The prime accused, Sanjoy Roy has been booked under BNS sections 64 (rape), 66 (punishment for causing death or resulting in a persistent vegetative state) and 103 (1) (punishment for murder).

He was arrested by the Kolkata Police on August 10, a day after the doctor’s body was found.

The CBI took charge of the case on August 13, and the charges against the accused were framed on December 4. The central agency has recorded statements of more than 120 witnesses.

During the 66-day in camera trial, the CBI counsel relied heavily on biological evidence — DNA samples, viscera and toxicology reports — apart from a layered voice analysis (LVA) to establish Roy as the perpetrator of the crime. It said saliva swab samples and DNA samples on the victim’s body had matched with that of Roy. The agency said the victim had put up a struggle and five blunt force injuries were found on Roy.

The CBI counsel has termed the brutal rape and murder as a rarest of rare crime.