--- In [email protected], Ragging News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hai members,
It's nice to know that at least but not at last, some of the evil perpetrators have been punished. Such measures will sow confidence among fresher of coming years and such judgments should be taken as reference for the future cases with the same imprint of the past. Let's all together welcome this verdict and wish the judiciary for success in growing cordial atmosphere in college campuses. Regards, J.Swami Dass [http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=6601309b-00ea-4bc7-a342-e95785d4ed91&&Headline=Three+students+convicted+for+ragging] Link to reportAshok Das, Hindustan TimesHyderabad, July 05, 2007Itâs > that time of the year when professional colleges open after vacation > and along with that comes the menace of ragging. While laws have been > enacted to make ragging a punishable offence, few get convicted because > the authorities as well as the community still take lenient view of the > problem.However, this time before colleges open, a stern message has > been sent across to perpetrators of ragging in Andhra Pradesh. A court > in Kurnool, the former capital of Andhra Pradesh,have sentenced three > students of Kurnool Medical College for ragging their juniors.Principal > junior civil judge V Krishna Murthy on Wednesday sentenced N Srinivas, > CP Muralikrishna Reddy and A Sudhir Kumar Reddy, the three senior > students to undergo jail-term for a year and pay a fine of Rs 5,000 > each.They had summoned three first year students to their hostel room > on August 30 last year and made them to strip, in the name of ragging. > Later they took the pictures of the stripped students using their cell > phone cameras.This is the first case of conviction in a ragging case in > the state. > > -- > Posted By Ragging News to Ragging News from Indian Colleges - > www.noragging.com at 7/06/2007 10:00:00 PM >
