[NewIndPress] Jail term for ragging

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Friday June 13 2008 11:06 IST
Express News Service

T’PURAM: A youth was sentenced to six-and-a-half years imprisonment on Wednesday on charges of ragging his junior student at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital in 2001.

Shahid Mohammed, a native of Lakshadweep, who is now residing at Andaman, was sentenced by the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-5 judge G P Jayakrishnan.

Out of the six-and-a-half year imprisonment, the convict will have to under go five-and-a-half years rigorous imprisonment.

The incident pertaining to the case occurred in October 2001. The prosecution case was that Shahid had forcibly subjected a first-year student Neeraj Kumar Gupta of Chhattisgarh to unnatural sex.

The incident occurred near the college hostel. Shahid was dismissed from the college following the incident.