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Adakka Raju stood firm to lay down what he saw on that fateful day after all these years, despite having been subjected to most “inhuman torture” by investigative agencies, the court said. Adakka Raju was an ordinary man, a man who scaled the walls of the convent of St. Pius …

Four close-up photos taken by photographer Varghese Chacko had disappeared when the murder case of Sister Abhaya was turned over to CBI. “I knew it was not suicide, since from the beginning, I felt like they were hiding something,” recalls Varghese Chacko, photographer and also the seventh witness in the …

Former Kerala High Court judge Kemal Pasha says Abhaya will never be able to get justice because the church she believed in fought for her killers, and not her. A 21-year-old nun was murdered in cold blood to keep a secret safe. The nun accidentally saw two priests and a …

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 …

Over the years, the church has consistently supported the defendants in the case and has rejected all the accusations against them. In a reaction that is perhaps not unexpected, the Knanaya Catholic Archpark of Kottayam has said that the allegations against Father Joseph Kottoor and Sister Sephy are incredible. Father …

The two defendants, Mr. Sephy and Father Kottoor, were found guilty under sections 302 (murder) and 449 (trespassing for a crime punishable by death) of the Indian Penal Code. Father Thomas Kottoor (73) and Sister Sephy (57): Two people convicted of killing a teenage nun, Sister Abhaya in 1992, have …

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 …

In a 28-year-old case involving the murder of a Catholic nun in Kottayam, an IWC court in Thiruvananthapuram found two defendants guilty Tuesday, the priest Thomas Kottoor and the nun Sister Sefi. The punishment for the duo in the longest-running investigation will be pronounced by CBI special court judge K …

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 …

A court at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram will deliver its verdict in the murder case of Sister Abhaya on Tuesday, nearly three decades after she was found dead inside a convent. Sister Abhaya, a 12th class student, was found dead in the well of the …