Engineering student gets 10 years jail for killing roommate

A court here today awarded 10 years imprisonment to a 21-year-old engineering student for stabbing his roommate to death two years ago.

According to the prosecution, Santhosh was staying with Dinesh and Pradeep, all fourth year students of a private engineering college here, in a rented room.

Santhosh had picked up a quarrel with Dinesh on the issue of cleaning the room on July 27, 2015, and in a fit of anger stabbed Dinesh in his abdomen with a kitchen knife in the morning.

Dinesh died at a private hospital in the night.

A case under 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) was registered against Santhosh.
 

Delivering the judgement, sessions court judge M Gunasekaran sentenced Santhosh to 10 years imprisonment.