The 70-year-old mother of Sanjay 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.
“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 chaos at Sealdah Court the other day.
She said she would “cry alone” but would accept his punishment as destiny.
A Kolkata court will announce the quantum of punishment on Monday. Roy was the only person arrested in the case. He was a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata police.
After the court convicted Roy on January 18, his mother Malati was initially hesitant to talk to the media. On Sunday, she spoke to reporters and said 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."
Asked if she had attended any of the court hearings or met Roy in the lockup, she said “No. Why should I? Despite my failing health, I would have tried to go if the charges were found to be untrue." Sanjay has three sisters and one of them is no more.
One of the elder sisters who lives with her in-laws close to Malati’s home said on Saturday if he is found guilty the law should take its own course and the family has no plan to challenge the order in any court on their own.
A middle-aged woman, with her face half-covered with dupatta, said at a shanty in Bhawanipore, she had not gone to the court where the trial was held.
“Please leave me alone. We are shattered," she said when asked if she thought her brother was guilty.
