A man is given the death penalty by a Kolkata court for “Rarest Of The Rare” double murder.
Kolkata: The Sealdah court here in West Bengal has awarded death sentence to Sanjay Sen, who was convicted of murdering an elderly couple in 2015.
On Wednesday, Judge Anirban Das pronounced the sentence in the 2015 sensational double murder case under Chitpur police station area, in which Sanjay Sen, alias Bappa, was found guilty of killing an elderly couple Prangovind Das and Renuka Das in their flat on July 15, 2015.
Nearly 10 years after the murder, the court convicted Sanjay Sen on Tuesday, while the quantum of sentence was pronounced on Wednesday. The government lawyer cited this particular case as ‘rarest of the rare’.
While delivering the sentence, Judge Anirban Das noted that the murdered couple had treated Sanjay Sen like their own child. “The murdered elderly couple loved the convict like a child. He was very loyal. That is why he often visited their house. The couple had even bought Sanjay a rickshaw to help him become financially independent. Even then, he brutally murdered them. If society does not give him the death penalty in this case, trust will be lost. Therefore, he needs to be given exemplary punishment,” the judge told the courtroom.
As per reports, Prangovind and Renuka, both teachers, were staying in their flat in Chitpur area. Sanjay Sen had conspired alone and carefully planned the murders. After killing the elderly couple, he looted cash and jewellery from the flat and fled to Nandigram in Purba Medinipur.
However, a few days later, he returned to Kolkata where he was arrested by the police. During interrogation, Sanjay revealed that he had thrown the blood-stained weapon used in the crime into a nearby pond. Following a search, police recovered the weapon, along with the looted money and jewellery.
Notably, the same judge Anirban Das had earlier sentenced Kolkata Police’s civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, the convict in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, to life imprisonment.
