India, July 25 -- Police on Friday arrested a convict in a 2011 rape and murder case within hours of his escape from a high-security prison in Kerala's Kannur early Friday morning.

Govindachamy was serving a life sentence in Kannur Central Jail for allegedly throwing a 23-year-old girl, Soumya, off a moving train and raped her in the woods near the railway track at Vallathol Nagar railway station on February 1, 2011.

Govindachamy had escaped from his cell in the 10th block of the prison around 4 am on Friday. After a manhunt, he was apprehended from a well behind the office of the National Sample Survey in the Talap neighbourhood around 11 am.

"We got the information that he had escaped around 6.30 am. The information was relayed to al...