India, Jan. 27 -- The Calcutta high court on Monday reserved its order on the admission of appeals made by the West Bengal government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking death penalty for RG Kar Hospital rape and murder convict Sanjay Roy.

On January 20, the additional district and sessions judge at Sealdah court sentenced Roy to life imprisonment. The court declined to award death sentence holding that the crime wasn't a rarest of the rare.

A division bench of Calcutta high court comprising Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi questioned why two authorities had approached the court with same appeal.

"Both the state government and the CBI moved the court demanding death penalty for the convict. The CB...