Quantum of punishment to be announced on Monday
| | | A Kolkata court on Saturday held the main accused in the RG Kar Hospital case guilty of raping and murdering a doctor at the facility last year, in a gruesome crime that sparked nationwide outrage, protests, and strikes by medical practitioners. | THE DAILY QUIZ The website doesn’t load. The app is down. Salaries unpaid. Co-founder Kabeer Biswas now works at Flipkart. Users have long since migrated to Blinkit, Zepto, Porter and others. The name comes from the slang for done, finished. You could say the platform is now… a. Dunzo
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d. WeFast TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY RG Kar suspect held guilty of rape, murder The Sealdah civil and criminal court held 31-year-old Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, guilty under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 64 (rape), 66 (causing injury resulting in death of rape victim), and 103 (1) (murder). “You have been accused of attacking the victim in the RG Kar Hospital, throttling and strangulating her to death. You sexually assaulted her. Charges have been framed. On the basis of the statements of the witnesses and the documents produced in this matter, your guilt has been proved,” additional district and sessions judge Anirban Das said while announcing the verdict. The quantum of punishment will be announced on Monday. Section 103(1) provides for the death penalty or imprisonment for life; Section 66 provides for imprisonment of not less than 20 years, which may be extended to life; Section 64 entails a punishment of not less than 10 years and can go up to a life term. Read more. | | THE BIG QUESTION Will Gaza ceasefire begin today? Israel’s cabinet voted to approve a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal on Saturday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, ending days of uncertainty about whether the truce would go into effect this weekend. The ceasefire, set to begin on Sunday, would halt fighting and bombardment in Gaza’s deadliest-ever war. Later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will not proceed with ceasefire before receiving list of hostages to be released by Hamas, The deal would also enable the release of hostages held in the territory since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Read more. | STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED | | | | PHOTO OF THE DAY Bringing the big guns ahead of R-Day parade | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Abhirup Sengupta. Produced by Shashwat Mohanty. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
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