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.
It took 28 years, but justice has prevailed, says murdered nun’s UAE-based brother dhanusha@khaleejtimes.com Filed on December 22, 2020
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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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My child got justice: key witness
It is ‘‘God s intervention’’, was how nun Abhaya’s brother Biju Thomas described the CBI court’s verdict on Tuesday convicting two accused, including a priest, of murdering his sister nearly three decades ago in a convent here.
Prime witness ‘Adakka’ Raju, whose statement turned out to be a crucial evidence, said he was extremely happy that ‘‘my child got justice’’, while Abhaya Case Action Council convener Jomon Puthenpurackal said truth can never be sabotaged.
Former Deputy Superintendent of Police, Central Bureau of Investigation, Varghese P. Thomas, who first established through his probe in 1993 that it was a murder, said his stand had been vindicated. The nun was found dead on March 27, 1992.
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The end-of-December arts and culture calendar in Aspen is normally crammed with events, from small local traditions to world-class presentations.
In the last two weeks of the year, there would be the Aspen Historical Society cookie exchange and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” and Aspen Film’s Academy Screenings, the Theatre Aspen Cabaret Series and JAS Café concerts, a premier nightly lineup at Belly Up Aspen, galas and parties like the Aspen Art Museum’s “The Next” and the family-friendly happening of the 12 Days of Aspen. Not this year, as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues into 2021.