Soumya murder case: Kerala HC confirms death sentence on accused

December 17, 2013

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Kochi, Dec 17: Kerala High Court today confirmed the death sentence awarded to Govindachamy by a Fast Track Court for brutally raping and causing the death of a 23-year-old woman after pushing her out of a moving train on February 1, 2008.

A division bench, comprising justices T Ramachandran Nair and B Kemal Pasha upheld the death sentence awarded by the FTC at Thrissur in November that year, saying "there is absolutely nothing to interfere in this case."

The bench also criticised the 'lukewarm' response of Indian Railways and the attitude of fellow passengers of the victim, who was returning home to Shornur from her workplace at Ernakulam, when the incident took place.

Pointing out there is no safety in ladies' compartments. the bench said that even after the incident, the compartment was at the rear end of the train.

The judges suggested the ladies compartment be placed in the middle section and two women guards be posted.

The bench held that the attitude of the fellow passengers was 'disgustful'. Had they offered a helping hand, this untoward incident could have been avoided.

It said there is need to create awareness among the public to rise to the occasion.Inaction of fellow passengers was more painful than the brutal action of the accused, the judges observed.

The prosecution case was that Gonvidachamy had pushed Soumya out of the compartment of the Ernakulam-Shornoor passenger train on Feb 1 after first trying to rob her. He then raped the seriously injured woman, who died on Feb 6.

The prosecution also pointed out that Govindachamy, a native of Tamil Nadu, had already been convicted in eight cases in that state.

The FTC had held the brutal rape was one of the reasons for the victim's death and that the nature of the crime was savage and had shocked society.

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March 15,2020

Mumbai, Mar 15: Three suspected coronavirus patients who were quarantined left a government hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Saturday evening without informing anybody, the police said.

By late night, however, two of them returned to the Ahmednagar district civil hospital. Search was on for the third patient, a Topkhana police station officer said.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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