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G. Sandeep, convicted successful the sensational execution of Dr Vandana Das wrong a hospital successful Kollam, Kerala, was sentenced to beingness word connected Saturday (March 21, 2026). The prosecution said it volition determination an entreaty seeking decease punishment for the accused. The victim's household besides batted for "maximum punishment".
Vandana Das was brutally killed wrong a taluk infirmary successful May 2023 by Sandeep.
The Kollam Additional District and Sessions Court sentenced Sandeep to a full of 30 years for assorted offences nether the past Indian Penal Code (IPC) and said that aft helium serves that period, his beingness imprisonment for the execution volition commence, peculiar nationalist authoritative Prathap G. Padickal told reporters.
The elaborate judgement is awaited.
The peculiar nationalist authoritative said that helium volition urge to the prosecution to record an entreaty seeking enhancement of the beingness imprisonment to decease penalty.
He said that the prosecution had sought the maximum punishment for Sandeep, "but the tribunal astir apt felt it was not a rarest-of-rare case" and that is wherefore decease punishment was not given.
Family to spell for appeal
The victim's begetter said that the verdict has travel arsenic a alleviation for the family, but helium cannot authoritatively accidental whether his girl has got justice.
He indicated his dissatisfaction with the punishment, saying that steps volition beryllium taken to question its enhancement aft discussions with the nationalist prosecutor.
Vandana’s parent said that the household tin “only privation for the maximum punishment” and it was up to the tribunal to determine what condemnation should beryllium given.
She said that the household volition spell successful appeal, but declined to remark connected whether her girl got justice.
She tearfully said that she wants the convict to endure the aforesaid symptom that her girl underwent "as helium stabbed her 27 times".
The tribunal connected March 17 had convicted Sandeep for assorted offences nether the IPC, including murder, demolition of grounds and wrongful restraint.
It had besides held him blameworthy nether the provisions of the Kerala Healthcare Service Persons and Healthcare Service Institutions (Prevention of unit and harm to property) Act 2012.
Sandeep was brought to the taluk infirmary by the constabulary for aesculapian attraction during the tiny hours of May 10, 2023 and helium went connected a abrupt attacking spree utilizing a brace of surgical scissors kept successful the country wherever his limb wounded was being dressed.
A schoolhouse teacher by profession, helium had initially attacked the constabulary officers and a backstage idiosyncratic who had accompanied him to the infirmary and past turned connected the young Vandana, who could not flight to safety.
She was stabbed respective times and aboriginal succumbed to her injuries successful a backstage infirmary successful Thiruvananthapuram wherever she was rushed pursuing the attack.
Vandana was a autochthonal of the Kaduthuruthy country of Kottayam territory and the lone kid of her parents.
She was a location surgeon astatine Azeezia Medical College Hospital and was moving astatine the Kottarakkara taluk infirmary arsenic portion of her training.
Sandeep had called the exigency fig 112, claiming that his beingness was successful danger. When the section constabulary located him, helium was lasting adjacent by his home, surrounded by section residents and his relatives, and had a coiled connected his limb pursuing an alleged quarrel.
He was past taken to the infirmary for dressing the wound.
