The ruling points to the “fascinatingly bizarre fact” that a “very expensive litigation” of a “underpaid cook” took place in the Supreme Court. Lead Counsel Harish Salve was hired as counsel for one of the witnesses who turned hostile in the Sister Abhaya murder case and the Knayaya Catholic Church …
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Sister Abhaya, 21, was killed and her body dumped down a convent well in 1992. Thiruvananthapuram: A special IWC court in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram today sentenced a Catholic priest and a nun to life imprisonment for the murder of Sister Abhaya, 28 years after the crime. The sentencing came a …
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On the morning of Mr Abhaya’s death, Raju had broken into the convent grounds to steal something when he saw the priests. Two roommates, two fellow nuns, a senior nun, two cooks, and a neighbor: These people had some information about how 19-year-old Sister Abhaya landed dead in the well …
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The hostility of the witnesses was the biggest challenge the prosecution faced during the trial. After a 28-year long wait, the verdict was handed down on Tuesday on the mysterious death of Sister Abhaya, a teenage nun in Kerala. An IWC court in Thiruvananthapuram convicted the defendants, Father Thomas Kottoor …
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