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Muringur: Church hails verdict

Thrissur: Thrissur Archbishop Mar Andrews Thazhathu has welcomed the Supreme Court’s observation in the Muringur Divine Retreat Centre case that High Court judges cannot treat anonymous letters as petitions and initiate suo motu proceedings. He told reporters here on Tuesday that the Supreme Court observation upheld truth.

“The objective of the Church is to help the downtrodden. The Supreme Court verdict proves that the Church’s activities are clearly in this direction,” he said.

Addressing a press conference at Chalukudy, near here, on Tuesday, Fr. George Panackal, director of the Retreat Centre, too welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict.

On March 10, 2006, the Kerala High Court had directed the State government to constitute a special investigation team (SIT), headed by Inspector-General of Police Vinson M. Paul, to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation of women, violation of foreign exchange regulations and unnatural deaths at the centre.

Justice K. Padmanabhan Nair had initiated suo motu proceedings on the basis of an anonymous letter and two CDs received by the court.

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