Sister Abhaya Murder Case

June 23, 2022

HC suspends life-term for Kottoor, Sephy in Abhaya case, grants bail

The two have been asked to furnish a bail amount of Rs five lakh each and have been barred from travelling outside Kerala.

January 22, 2022
Tale of two nuns: Strange coincidences of Abhaya and Kuravilangad nun trials

The accused in both cases are people sworn to a life of celibacy. And forbidden desires were at the heart of both the crimes.
July 12, 2021
HC seeks Kerala govt's stand on plea to quash parole to Abhaya case convicts

The two convicts – Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Sephy – were granted parole for 90 days on May 11 and 12 by the DG Prisons.
December 23, 2020
Sr Abhaya murder: Life-term for Fr Kottoor, Sr Sephy

The Special Court judge K Sanilkumar heard the convicts before reading out their sentences. The verdict has come as a near surprise as crucial prosecution witnesses, at least nine of them, had turned hostile during the trial stage.
December 22, 2020
Abhaya case verdict: After 28 years, Fr Kottoor, Sr Sephy convicted

The nun of the Knanaya congregation, a second-year pre-degree student of Kottayam BCM College and a resident of Pius X convent in Kottayam, was found dead in the well of the convent on March 27, 1992.
December 17, 2020
Was sister Abhaya killed and then dumped in the well? Or was it suicide?

Dr C Radhakrishnan who had conducted the post-mortem examination on Sister Abhaya's body said that it was possible the nun could have been thrown into the well of St Pius Convent, Kottayam, after she was hit on the head.
December 17, 2020
Death of Sister Abhaya: Defence attempts to dismantle the CBI case

The nearly five-hour cross-examination in the CBI Special Court on Wednesday of CBI superintendent of police Nandakumaran Nair, who probed Sister Abhaya's death late 2008, was a meticulous, time-consuming exercise devised to drill large gaping holes in every aspect of the investigation under him.

Sister Abhaya Murder Case

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Tale of two nuns: Strange coincidences of Abhaya and Kuravilangad nun trials

HC seeks Kerala govt's stand on plea to quash parole to Abhaya case convicts

Sr Abhaya murder: Life-term for Fr Kottoor, Sr Sephy

Abhaya case verdict: After 28 years, Fr Kottoor, Sr Sephy convicted

Was sister Abhaya killed and then dumped in the well? Or was it suicide?

Death of Sister Abhaya: Defence attempts to dismantle the CBI case

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Sr Abhaya was hit with axe on head, forensic expert tells court