West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she was not satisfied with the court giving life imprisonment to the convict in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case.
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00:00Let's get you the first reaction coming in from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
00:09on the Abhaya rape and murder case judgment after the accused Sanjay Roy has been sentenced
00:16to life imprisonment Mamata Banerjee has expressed a disappointment saying she wanted the death
00:21penalty for the rapist Mamata saying I'm not satisfied with the sentencing she's also lashed
00:27out at the CBI essentially saying the CBI took away case from the Kolkata police hinting
00:33that it's because of the CBI that you're not seeing a death penalty in this case
00:41Okay so Mamata Banerjee now questioning and saying personally that she's been very disappointed
00:46by the fact that this rapist in the Abhaya case wasn't awarded the death penalty remember
00:51the judge while in fact reading out the sentencing said that he believes this is not a rarest
00:56of rare case and that's why sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment until death there's
01:01been a demand of course for death penalty the parents had put it forth the CBI also
01:06had demanded death penalty and now Mamata Banerjee reiterating that she's disappointed
01:11that in this case it was only a life sentence Suryagini Roy is joining us with more details
01:15on this Suryagini you've got Mamata Banerjee expressing her disappointment dissatisfaction
01:21but also seemingly pinning the blame on the CBI's investigation
01:29well you know the state's chief minister time and again she had reiterated her stand on
01:33such cases and what should be the penalty or that you know what should be the the judgment
01:38on such or rather the punishment on such cases she had stated time and again even today morning
01:44when she was leaving for her administrative tour she did hint at what she wanted she stated
01:50that you know even earlier the state government had had fixed its stand and also to no more
01:56as a party and she herself took out a rally you know demanding death penalty for such
02:02you know convicts of such crimes and Sanjay Roy as well now however she has you know reacted
02:09to the judgment that has the rather the quantum of the punishment let's in fact play out exactly
02:14what Mamata Banerjee said okay we'll get that reaction for you in just a bit my apologies
02:21Suryagini we're just getting the reaction from the chief minister Mamata Banerjee on in fact
02:28the judgment that's come in in the Abhaya rape and murder case for the Trinamool Congress they
02:34are repeatedly Suryagini lashing out now at the opposition saying that there was unnecessary
02:39politics that was played out over this particular case well you know this is something that was
02:49expected because the Trinamool has time and again stated that the stand of the Kolkata
02:55police stands vindicated after you know the CBI couldn't find anyone else in this particular
03:01investigation and it was only Sanjay Roy who's the primary accused who was convicted in this
03:08particular gruesome crime now the Trinamool Congress it's taking on the CBI and it's it's
03:14you know it comes from the chief minister herself she's leading the attack and she's
03:18categorically stated that had this been with the state then they would have pushed for death
03:23penalty and you know this is not the first time that Mamata Banerjee has openly called for death
03:28penalty in this particular case okay even we clearly remember almost you know when this
03:34reaction of Mamata Banerjee let's play that out for our viewers
04:04and even today we are still working on that claim
04:07but the court's ruling
04:09naturally now all together
04:11I don't know what they will say
04:14but I can speak for myself
04:16or for my party
04:18which is that we in three cases
04:20you have seen
04:22on the 12th
04:24from the 6th day
04:26we have ordered the hangings
04:31but I don't know if this is a serious case
04:34and if this is a hanged case
04:36then we all have a right
04:40in that case
04:42I can speak for myself
04:46we said that this case is in our hands
04:50but we could have ordered the hangings a long time ago
04:52we could have ordered the hangings
04:58I don't know how you fought
05:00what you did
05:03you lawyers know
05:09I don't know the details
05:11the details are being CBI
05:13but we have the case in our hands
05:15we have the case in our hands
05:17we have the case in our hands
05:19we have the case in our hands
05:21we said that if we can't do it
05:23then you can CBI
05:25but we want to think
05:27this is a serious case
05:29this is a serious case
05:32Has CBI been crucial from the beginning?
05:35I can't say that
05:37but I am as I am