Kottayam, Wednesday, February 25, 2009: Kottayam Special Court Judge K Shasidharan Nair today convicted three students in connection with the ragging and sexual assault on a 17-year-old nursing student of the School of Medical Education (SME) other four to nine accused were let off. Earlier, the pronouncement of verdict was deferred by the Court yesterday.
Earlier, as per the prosecution, six of the accused had sexually assaulted a first year nursing student in the name of ragging and three accused tried to destroy evidence and engaged in criminal conspiracy to cover up the incident.
According to Superintendent of Police S. Sreejith, the nine accused are Renjith Varghese, Sherin, Shefique Yusuf, Ashly Varghese, Robin Paul, Divin Philip (all third year nursing students at SME) SME principal K.M. Mariam, director Muraleedharan and head of the Department of Psychiatry at Kottayam Medical College Dr. Zybunneesa Beevi.
The first six of the accused have been charge sheeted under sections 376 (2g), 342, 354, 366(a), 328 and 506(2) of Indian Penal Code.
The SME principal, director and head of the Department of Psychiatry have been charge sheeted under sections 120(b), 201, 202 and 218.
In addition, the accused have been charge sheeted under provisions of the anti-ragging act also.
The case was registered on November 12, 2005 and the investigation was completed within 65 days.
- By KOL News , Written on February 25, 2009
6 Responses to “SME ragging: Court convicts 3”
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cut the culprits into pieces & throw them into the holy ganga. or nothing happens we will take law into our own hands
There is little our legal system can do to stop such acts. What would the 10 years imprisonement do to the convicted. It may remove the element from civilised society for 10 years only to return as a hardened criminal to do more crime against society.
Judiciary rocks!
Just hang these culprits.They should no longer be a part of the society.
The loacl people must ensure that even those accused who have been let off and also the convicted ones are punished for the rest of their lives. People must hound them and beat them up if at all they show themselves up in society.
“go cut their junk up,” I feel sorry for the girl and her family.