KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy’s mother was relieved as her 35-year-old son was spared the gallows. “Why will he be hanged? The judge has made the right decision. I don’t know what may have happened. Police and the judiciary know that, and they have taken a decision,” she said Monday, speaking from behind the closed wooden door of her one-room home in a Kolkata neighbourhood.
The woman in her 70s had kept her door shut throughout the day and only briefly came out to retrieve clothes she had put out to dry.
She quickly retreated inside when a battery of reporters pressed for a reaction after a trial court sentenced Sanjay to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a 31-year-old resident doctor at RG Kar Medical College on Aug 9 last year.
“I neither have grievances nor gratitude towards police for whatever they have done. I can only curse my luck for my misfortunes,” she said from behind the closed door.
