JUDGMENT

Raju, J.-The appellant, who was able to escape from the long arm of law due to his acquittal by the trial Court was soon made to realise that the sword in the hands of justice never fails to vindicate itself in preserving ultimately law and order in the society when he was indicted for offences under Sections 376, 392 and 302, IPC, and imposed with punishments of imprisonment for life under Section 302, IPC, and rigorous imprisonment for seven years each on the other counts, to run concurrently.

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 16.9.1994 at about 5.30 p.m., the appellant, representing himself to be the husband of one of the sisters of Gracy the deceased went to St. Mary s Convent, Vandoor, where she was employed as Kitchen maiden and on a false pretext that her mother was ill seriously and had been admitted to Medical Trust Hospital, Ernakulam, took her away with the permission of PW 5, the Sister incharge of the Covent at the relevant time. The further case is that the appellant after taking the victim out of the Convent, had her walk along with him by the side of the Railway Line in Koratty and thereafter at a desolate place not only raped and robbed her of her or