Hours after a court in Kolkata convicted civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy for the rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on Saturday, a political war broke out in West Bengal.
As soon as the verdict came, Trinamool Congress’ state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said that Roy’s conviction proves that the initial investigation by Kolkata Police was on the right track.
"Some people resorted to unnecessarily mud-slinging in the matter. Today it is proved that they were spreading lies. The investigation by the Kolkata Police was in the right direction. But some leftists, leftist extremist forces, some hardcore anti-Trinamool Congress sections and a section of the medical practitioners tried to mislead people," he said.
"The CBI was handed over the investigation midway. But their investigation too proved that Kolkata Police was carrying out the probe on the right lines," Ghosh said.
However, BJP West Bengal chief and Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar said it is not clear what kind of “tampering” of evidence happened during the first five days after the crime when Kolkata Police was handling the investigation.
"Doubts still prevail on this issue. For the time being Sanjoy Roy is convicted. If he is guilty he deserves the highest punishment. But had the right evidence been there the fallout could have been different," Majumdar said.
CPI(M) leader Sayandip Mitra while Sanjoy Roy is convicted for the crime of rape and murder, it is not clear who are the actual “masterminds in the larger conspiracy” who instigated Roy to commit the heinous act.
"All we want now is the faces of these masterminds surface," Mitra said.
Earlier as soon as Roy was convicted, he shouted within the court claiming innocence. "I have not done anything. Why those who were responsible were allowed to go freely? I am not guilty. The conspiracy was framed by many," Roy shouted.
