Abhaya’s Father Petitions CJM, Kerala Online, January 5, 2009

Abhaya’s Father Petitions CJM

Kerala Online
January 5, 2009

http://keralaonline.com/news/abhayas-father-move-plea-recover-cds_15705.html

Kochi, Monday, January 05, 2009: Sister Abhaya’s father Thomas has moved another plea in the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court requesting the Court to direct the CBI to raid the office and residence of Forensic Lab Director, Malini to recover the real CDs containing the results of Narco Analysis Test on the suspects.

Earlier, the Kerala High Court had ordered the to produce narco-analysis tests of two priests and a nun in connection with the mysterious death of Sister Abhaya in 1992. Justice V. Ramkumar who saw the CD, which the CBI had submitted July 23 2008, raised doubts about the narco-analysis and told the open court that the official who had conducted the test was not familiar with the Malayalam language.

The counsel for CBI once again said that Abhaya was murdered but there was lack of evidence to nail the culprits. He added that evidence had been destroyed during the previous investigations done by the local police and the Crime Branch. Sister Abhaya, a resident of Pious X Hostel near here, was found dead in the well of the convent March 27, 1992.

The CBI concluded in November 1996 that the death was a homicide but the murderer remained untraced. The Kerala Police earlier dismissed the case as suicide.

Three previous CBI teams have failed to crack the mystery behind Abhaya’s death.

The 16-year-old case came back into the limelight in April last year after a newspaper reported that Abhaya’s medical reports had been tampered with at the Chemical Examiners Laboratory in Thiruvananthapuram.