Kolkata, Jan 19: The mother of Sanjoy Roy, who was convicted for the rape and murder of an on-duty medic of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Sunday said if her son is guilty then he should get the punishment he deserves, even if it means hanging.
The 70-year-old woman said she would “cry alone” but would accept his punishment as destiny.
A Kolkata court, where Sanjoy Roy’s trial was held, will announce the quantum of punishment on Monday. A former civic volunteer with the Kolkata police, Roy was the only person arrested in the case. Initially reticent to speak to the media after the court convicted Roy on January 18, his mother Malati told reporters on Sunday that being a woman and a mother of three daughters, “I can feel the anguish and pain of the mother of the woman medic who is also like my daughter.” “If the court decides to hang him to death, I don’t have any objection as his crime has been proved in the eye of the law. I will cry alone but accept it as a quirk of fate, something willed by destiny,” she said standing on the doorstep of her shanty on Shambhunath Pandit Street, about 5 km away from the commotion and buzz at Sealdah Court the other day. (PTI)
