Sunday, October 30, 2011: A local Court would on October 31
pronounce judgement in the case relating to the rape and murder of a
23-year-old woman, who was pushed from a running train in February.
Fast Track court Judge K N Raveendra Babu will deliver the
judgement, Special Prosecutor A Sureshan said. According to the prosecution,
30-year-old Govindachamy hailing from Virudhachalam in Tamil Nadu had assaulted
Soumya in the ladies compartment of the Kochi-Shornur Passenger train on
February 1 and pushed her out of the running train immediately after it left
the Vallathol Nagar railway station.
She was on her way home at Manjakad near Shornur after
attending office at Ernakulam. Govindachamy was arrested on February 3 from
Palakaad. Soumya had succumbed to injuries at the Thrissur Medical
College Hospital
The prosecutor pleaded for capital punishment to the accused
considering it a”rarest of rare case in the light of the scientific and
circumstantial evidence produced before the court.
” He had also prayed that the absence of eye-witness should
not be a lacuna in this case in awarding maximum punishment to the accused as
he had no “qualm of conscience at all in committing the heinous crimes of rape
and murder, together.
“Out of a total of 154 witnesses, statements of 82 were
recorded before the court. Besides, 105 documents, 43 pieces of evidence were
also produced before the court pressing for the capital punishment to the
accused, Prosecutor said. The trial had commenced on June 6 and came to an end
on October 25.
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