Four medical students were on Thursday sentenced to four years in jail by a fast track court after they were held guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for ragging to death their junior Aman Kachroo in Himachal Pradesh last year.

Additional district and sessions judge Purinder Vaidyahad did not entertain the prosecution plea for convicting the four students of murder under section 302 IPC for which the punishment is a life term. All the four students -- Ajay Verma, Naveen Verma, Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma --were convicted earlier in the day under relevant sections of IPC 304 II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) and 34 (common intention) of IPC.