Four in Himachal sentenced for killing ragging protester

A court in this Himachal Pradesh town has convicted four students for stabbing to death another student, who stopped them from ragging juniors in a degree college in 2003, a law official said here Tuesday.’Four of the five students were sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment by Additional District and Sessions Judge Rajiv Bhardwaj Monday for murdering Amit Thakur,’ Additional District Attorney Kuldip Sen told .They were also fined Rs.25,000 each.He said the case of the fifth accused, who was juvenile at the time of the crime, was transferred to a juvenile court. The five students stabbed Amit and his friends Munish Walia and Rajesh Sharma with sharp-edged weapons when they tried to prevent them from ragging freshers in the Government Degree College at Palampur (now Shaheed Vikram Batra Degree College) near here Aug 20 in 2003 . Read Full Story