” DIABOLICAL CRIME”
The horrible nature of the attack drew similarities with the 2012 group murder and murder of a young girl on a Delhi van, which also sparked week of nationwide protests.
India imposes the death sentence, although it is often carried out in training.
The next deaths in India were in March 2020- of four people convicted of the 2012 Delhi vehicle harm.
The test of Roy, who pleaded not guilty, was fast-tracked through India’s usually glacier legal structure.
Before the imprisonment, Roy on Monday once insisted he was honest and that he had been “framed”.
Roy’s attorney, Kabita Sarkar, said he was” no mentally firm” and that they would appeal.
Police stopped some processions from reaching the judge, but thousands gathered outside with several chanting:” Hang him, drop him. “
Rimjhim Sinha, 34, who helped organise many mass rallies demanding justice and better security for people before the test, said she was “profoundly unhappy” at the word.
” It was a diabolical crime, an extreme case of depravity,” Sinha, who was part of the” Reclaim the Night” movement, said.
” It is high time that India stem the ever-swelling tide of murder and death”.
Aniket Mahato, a physician and spokesman for the young doctors who carried out months of attacks last year demanding better protection for medical workers, said that he felt the” justice was never delivered”.