The convict in the RG Kar hospital rape and murder case, Sanjay Roy, is likely to work as a gardener initially in Presidency Correctional Home where he is lodged, an official said on Wednesday.Roy, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police,

The West Bengal government has already approached the high court, challenging the verdict and seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy.

Sentencing Roy to life in prison, a Kolkata court said Monday that the case didn’t meet the criteria to be classified as ‘rarest of rare’, and therefore, did not merit death penalty.