The Principal District and Sessions Court here on Wednesday sentenced four youth to undergo life imprisonment for murdering an engineering student here a few years ago.
Principal District Judge S. Kumaraguru also slapped a fine of Rs.3,000 each on S. Rajarajan, A. Armas, R. Sirajudeen and K.S. Vimal alias Vimal Karthik.
The student Ajay Ruban, who was 19 years old at the time of murder, was attacked on the night of December 31, 2012 by a group of youth.
Ajay Ruban was a senior student in the same school here where Rajarajan, Armas and A. Ramprasad studied a few years ago.
Ajay Ruban, who was pursuing B. Tech course in a private engineering college at Vallam, was speaking to his friends near a theatre under the Cantonment police station limits when he was attacked.
According to the prosecution, Rajarajan abused Ajay Ruban and stabbed him with a knife on his neck. Subsequently, Armas, Sirajuddin and Vimal Karthik also carried out the attack.
Ajay was immediately rushed by his friends to a private hospital nearby where he succumbed on January 7, 2013.
The Cantonment Police booked a case under IPC sections 302 (murder) 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 294 (b) (uttering obscene words in a public place).
Rajarajan, Armas, Sirajuddin, Vimal Karthik, Ramprasad and Mohamed Salman Khan – who were all 19 years old then – were named as the accused.
The charge-sheet was filed in March 2013 in the case with over 40 prosecution witnesses. The trial commenced in the Principal District and Sessions Court in January 2015.
In the verdict, the court imposed only fine of Rs.1,000 each on the other two accused Ramprasad and Mohamed Salman Khan under IPC section 323.
Ajay Ruban was speaking to his friends near a theatre when he was attacked
