A six-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hold in-chamber hearing today on a curative petition in the Soumya rape case in which murder charge was dropped against convict Govindachamy. The curative petition has been filed by Kerala government. <br/><br/>A bench, comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices Ranjan Gogoi, P C Pant, U U Lalit, Dipak Misra and J Chelameswar, will consider the matter in the chamber.<br/><br/>Justices Gogoi, Pant and Lalit had on September 15 last year dropped the murder charge against the convict, but had upheld the life term for raping the 23-year-old sales representative in Kerala.<br/><br/>The victim's family had dubbed the verdict as heart breaking.<br/><br/>According to the prosecution, the incident took place when Soumya, an employee of a Kochi shopping mall, was travelling in a ladies coach on the Ernakulam-Shoranur passenger train on 1st of February 2011. <br/><br/>A curative petition is a rare remedy entertained by the Supreme Court on ground of bias.