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A Magistrate Court has exonerated college lecturer T J Joseph of the charge of hurting religious sentiments of a community through a question paper he set for his students. The Chief Judicial Magistrate at Thodupuzha discharged Joseph on Wednesday from the case,accepting his plea that he had prepared the questions for the graduate course without any mala fide intention. A former lecturer of Malayalam literature at Newman College in Thodupuzha,Joseph was attacked and his right hand chopped off allegedly by activists of a fundamentalist outfit on July 5,2010,while he was going to church with his family. The attackers allegedly told him he was being punished for sacrilegious undertones of one of the questions he set for second year graduate students. Despite widespread condemnation the incident evoked,the college management dismissed Joseph from the job.
