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Rape-murder convict gives slip from prison, caught within hours

Notorious criminal Govindachamy, alias Govindaswamy, a convict serving a life sentence in the sensational 2011 Soumya murder case, escaped from the high-security Kannur Central Jail on Friday...

Soumya rape and murder: SC scraps Govindachamy's death penalty

The Supreme Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of Govindachamy, a convict in the brutal rape and murder case of 23-year-old Soumya, to seven-year jail term after dropping the murder...

HC confirms death sentence on rape-murder case accused

The Kerala high court on Tuesday 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...

Why is Indian culture so anti-female?

Rajeev Srinivasan on whether the tragic cases of several women grievously injured in India has some larger lessons that we need to learn. It has been precisely one year since Sowmya was murdered...

Soumya murder case: Accused gets death sentence

A fast track court in Thrissur, Kerala, on Friday awarded death sentence to a man from Tamil Nadu for raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman, whom he pushed out of a running train in February....