New York, October 21: Nineteen-year-old Indian-American student Dharun Ravi today rejected a plea deal from the prosecutors Friday. Under the deal offered by prosecutors in Middlesex County, he was asked to perform 600 hours of community service and counselling, among others. Now, after refusing to plead guilty, he will face trial in February 2012. A trail date for Ravi has been set for February 21, 2012. If convicted, he would stand to face 10 or more years in prison. The case against Dharun Ravi, 19, a former student of Rutgers, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, garnered worldwide attention after the roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, committed suicide a few days after the alleged spying took place. Ravi was indicted on the 15 charges in April. Authorities say the case began in early August 2010, when Ravi learned that he’d be rooming with Clementi in his first year at Rutgers. Soon after that, he posted a message on his Twitter account: “Found out my roommate is gay,” and linked to a thread that Clementi is believed to have posted on a gay community chat room. Then on Sep 19, 2010, according to Twitter archives stored by Google, he tweeted again: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.” Authorities say that was the night Ravi used the webcam to spy on his roommate – and that he tried to do it again two nights later. Clementi, an aspiring violinist, killed himself Sep 22 by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after learning of the online video stream of his homosexual encounter, authorities said.