Kolkata, Feb. 7 -- A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court will deliver the verdict on the admissibility of the petition by the West Bengal government seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the sole convict in the R.G. Kar rape and murder tragedy, on Friday morning. Both the West Bengal government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have approached Calcutta High Court's Division Bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi seeking death penalty for Roy. However, at the same time, the CBI had opposed the petition by the state government on the grounds that it was their officials who had been conducting the probe following a previous order of the Calcutta High Court.

Hence, the central agency and victim's parent...