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Directive in Abhaya case

Kochi: The Kerala High Court, on Tuesday, directed its Registrar-General to ascertain if the contents of the compact disc on the narco-analysis tests in the Sister Abhaya death case forwarded by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Bangalore, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were the same as in the three CDs directly received by the court from the laboratory.

Justice V. Ramakumar said the three CDs contained more information than the CD given by the CBI.

R.K. Agarwal, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI, who is investigating the case, on Monday stated that the CD produced by the agency on July 23 was a true copy of the original received from the FSL.

The court ordered that the laboratory confirm whether the single CD forwarded to the CBI had all the information that were in the three CDs or separate CDs were forwarded to the CBI with reports of three separate test results.

The judge gave the directions on a petition filed by M. Thomas, father of Abhaya.

The body of Abhaya, 21, living in Pious X Convent hostel, was found in a well on the convent premises in March 1992.

Replying to a query of the court, Mr. Agarwal, who appeared before the court on Tuesday, said that it was a case of homicide.

Answering another question, he said the CBI had received definite clues about the accused, but there was no sufficient evidence to arrest them.

He submitted that he was the twelfth officer to investigate the crime.

To another question, he said that S.M. Krishna, Superintendent of Police, was still supervising the investigation.

Mr. Krishna had never investigated the case.

He said that no new facts had emerged even after Fr. Thomas Kottoor, Fr. Jose Poothrukayil and Sister Sephy were thoroughly interrogated and subjected to polygraph test at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, New Delhi.

The investigation officer had submitted that the investigation team was making sincere efforts to verify or corroborate the facts revealed during the tests on the two priests and the nun to unravel the mystery surrounding the death.

No stone would be left unturned to bring the culprits to book.

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