Kochi, December 17, 2013 A division bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence awarded by the Thrissur Fast Track Court to Govindachamy, the sole accused in the Soumya murder case. The murder took place on February 1, 2011. The prosecution case was that, Govindachamy had pushed Soumya, a passenger, out of the Ernakulam-Shoranur passenger train after attempting to rob her. He had raped the seriously injured woman after she fell down in woods nearby the railway track at Vallathole Nagar. She later succumbed to injuries at the Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital on February 6. The bench comprising Justice T.R. Ramachadran Nair and Justice B. Kemal Pasha while upholding the sentence observed that it did no find any reason to interfere with the conclusions of the fast track court. . The fast track court had observed that the brutal rape was one of the reasons for the death of Soumya. There was no legal or moral justification
