Kochi, July 26 -- Police in Kerala on Friday apprehended a notorious rape-murder convict hours after he made a dramatic break from the high-security Kannur Central Prison.

The 41-year-old convict identified as Govindachamy, who has been serving a life sentence in connection with the sensational rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in 2011, was caught by the local police from inside a well in a derelict compound in the Talap neighbourhood of Kannur town, barely three kilometres from the prison. Police and jail officials have found that Govindachamy, whose left hand was amputated years ago, sliced open the bars of his jail cell and used a rope fashioned out of several clothes to scale the 25-ft boundary wall of the central prison.

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