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Hours after the order was passed, the two accused, charged under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) and on bail since 2009, were sent back to jail.
The CBI had named another priest, Father Jose Puthrikkayl, as the second accused but the court allowed his discharge petition before the trial, which began last year, citing lack of evidence.
“I had been waiting for this day. Truth has the final victory. I have been praying for the soul of my sister to get justice,’’ said Abhaya’s brother Biju Thomas, who is employed in the Middle East. Abhaya’s parents, Thomas Aikkarakunnel and Leelamma, died in 2016.
KeralaIndiaKottayamBiju-thomasThomas-aikkarakunnelShaju-philip-thiruvananthapuramDysp-nandakumaran-nairThomas-kottoorJomon-puthenpurackalJose-puthrikkaylAdakka-rajuKerala-high-courtA court under the Central Bureau of Investigation announced their verdict in the murder case of Catholic nun Sister Abhaya on Tuesday. The special court pronounced two accused, Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Stephy, as guilty.
Sister Abhaya, a resident of Pius X convent in Kottayam in Kerala, was found dead in the well of the convent on March 27, 1992. Initially, the Crime Branch and CBI deemed the death a suicide but activist Joemon Puthenpurackal formed an Action Council and was pursuing the case.
The turnaround happened after Puthenpurackal, managed to get the case reopenedand and following this, the CBI cracked it. On November 19, 2008, the CBI arrested the three accused, who included Poothrikkayil, a former Malayalam professor at the Kottayam college where Abhaya studied; Kottor, the Diocesan chancellor of the Catholic Church at Kottayam and Seffi, a resident of the convent when the incident took place.
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The priest and the nun have been found guilty in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Sister Abhaya.
Her body was found in the well of a convent in Kottayam in 1992.
A CBI court in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday found a catholic priest and a nun guilty in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Sister Abhaya, whose body was found in the well of a convent in Kottayam in 1992. The verdict in this regard was pronounced by CBI special court judge J Sanal Kumar.
The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on December 23 (Wednesday). The court said the murder charges against Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Sephy will stand. Both are in judicial custody. Another accused in the case, Fr Poothrakayal was discharged earlier over lack of evidence.
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Kerala’s Sister Abhaya murder case accused found guilty after 28 years
The two accused in the Sister Abhaya murder case in Kerala have been found guilty by a special CBI court. The court convicted Father Thomas Kottur and Sister Sephy after the long legal battle of over 28 years.
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UPDATED: December 22, 2020 13:12 IST
Sister Abhaya was murdered in 1992 and the case has been going on for 28 years.
The two accused in the Sister Abhaya murder case in Kerala have been found guilty by a special CBI court. The court convicted Father Thomas Kottur and Sister Sephy after the long legal battle of over 28 years.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two accused in the sensational Sister Abhaya murder case were found guilty by a special CBI court on Tuesday. The sentence will be pronounced on Wednesday.
Besides the charges of murder and disappearance of evidence, the two were also accused of house trespassing. While Father Thomas Kottoor was found guilty, Sister Sephy was found not guilty.
With this, the bail of the two accused will now be cancelled and both the accused will be kept under judicial custody. The judgement was announced by CBI judge K Sanal Kumar.
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Updated: December 22, 2020 3:28 pm IST
Sister Abhaya, 21, was murdered and her body was dumped inside the well of a convent in Kottayam.
Highlights
Father Thomas Kottoor, hostel in-charge Sister Sephy convicted
Quantum of punishment will be delivered tomorrow
Thiruvananthapuram:
A special CBI court in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram today delivered its verdict in a 28-year-old murder case as it held a Catholic priest and a nun guilty. Sister Abhaya, 21, was murdered and her body was dumped inside the well of a convent in Kottayam in 1992.
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A Catholic priest and a nun found guilty of the murder of Sister Abhaya on Tuesday.
Twenty eight years after his sister’s death under mysterious circumstances, Biju Thomas — a Dubai resident and elder brother of murder victim Sister Abhaya — said it was only “divine intervention” that brought
Nearly three decades after she was found dead inside in a water well convent St Pius Convent X in Kottayam, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram pronounced a Catholic priest and a nun guilty of the murder of Sister Abhaya on Tuesday. The quantum of punishment will be handed down on Wednesday.
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