Kerala Online
January 23, 2009
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Kottayam, Friday, January 23, 2009: All eyes will be focused at the Pious X convent in Kottyam today, as CBI is likely to repeat the occurrences of March 27th, 1992. The three accused Father Thomas Kottoor, Father Jose Putarikail, Sister Sepphy who are on bail have been bought to PWD rest house in Kottayam. The three have been under the scanner for a long time and were even subjected to a narco analysis and polygraph tests last year.
The interrogation is taking place after special consent from Court.
The CBI has also asked the inmates who were present during the time of incident to arrive at Pious X today.
Abhaya, a resident of Pious X Hostel, was murdered and her body dumped in the well of the Kottayam convent on March 27, 1992. She was a second year pre-degree student in BCM college, which belonged to the diocese of Kottayam.
In November 1996, the CBI came to the conclusion that it was murder. However, it failed to arrest the accused. Till now 13 CBI teams have investigated the case. And 12 earlier teams were unable to take the case forward. CBI joint director Ashok Kumar said the case would be taken to its logical conclusion within 30 days.
The Kerala High Court had taken over the monitoring of the investigation of the Sister Abhaya case in 1993 and has been highly critical of the CBI investigations. The court had rejected three closure reports filed by the CBI. On September 4 this year, the court had directed the CBI Delhi unit to hand over the probe to its Kochi unit after which amazing breakthroughs were made in the case.
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