India, June 28 -- The prime accused, Monojit Mishra, in the alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old student on the south Kolkata law college campus in Kasba, had demanded the death sentence for the guilty in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case last year.

"Want death sentence for the rapist. Want justice and not drama. Want immediate justice. Want death sentence for the guilty," Mishra had written on his social media account on August 16.

The body of the 31-year-old second-year postgraduate student, who was raped and murdered inside a seminar hall of the hospital, was found on August 9. The crime occurred late at night in the third-floor seminar hall of the chest department. Police later reported that multiple lacerat...