4 WOMEN JAILED IN RAGGING SUICIDE

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in a first such verdict in Madhya Pradesh, a court in Bhopal has handed 5-year imprisonment to 4 woman students of a private pharmacy college for abetting suicide of another student in a 2013 ragging case. In his order on Friday, additional sessions court judge Amit Ranjan imposed a fine of Rs8,000 on each of the convicts, the prosecution said. The court absolved a college teacher from charges for want of proof. The prosecution said the convicts mentally and physically tortured the deceased, after which she hanged herself at her home in Bhopal on August 6, 2013. The victim had named the 4 students in her suicide note.