Abhaya case: CBI submits reports on narco-analysis tests before court

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Kochi: The CBI submitted a copy of the report on the results of the narco-analysis test conducted on the suspects in the Sister Abhaya case before the Kerala High Court on Monday.

The results were submitted in a sealed over.

The High Court had earlier directed the CBI to produce the results in a sealed cover on a petition filed by Jomon Puthenpurackal, a human rights activist. The court had made it clear that the report would remain with the magistrate court in a sealed cover without any of the parties having any right of disclosure of the same until the appropriate stage was reached.

The body of Abhaya, a 21-year-old inmate of the Pious X Convent hostel, was found in March 1992 in a well on the convent premises. The CBI concluded that it was a case of murder. It had filed a report before the magistrate court saying that the investigation did not indicate involvement of any person in the death of Sister Abhaya and sought to close the case as untraced. However, the magistrate court rejected the report and directed the CBI to conduct further investigation.

The court had said that the CBI had the freedom to proceed further and conduct necessary investigation and bring to book persons responsible for the gruesome murder of a nun.
Marad case

Justice R. Basant has orally directed the Director General of Prosecutions (DGP) to state the allegations specifically levelled against each of the 27 accused in the Marad massacre case.

The judge gave the direction when the bail petitions filed by the 27 accused came up for hearing. The DGP had earlier stated that the government had no objection to bail being granted to one of the accused, Abbas, who is suffering from cancer. The DGP opposed the bail plea of the other accused and submitted that if they were released on bail it would disturb the communal harmony in the area.
Indulekha case

Justice Antony Dominic on Monday reserved judgement on a writ petition filed by Indulekha Joseph challenging Mahatma Gandhi University’s order rejecting her appeal against the decision of the principal of St. George College, Aruvithara, to suspend her from the college.

According to Indulekha, a first year degree student of the college, she was suspended from the college because her father wrote a book critical of the Church. The M.G. University order concluded that there had been deliberate and unjustifiable efforts on the part of the student to malign the reputation of the college and she had developed a strong prejudice against the principal and the institution and “indulged in grave indiscipline.”
Order reserved

Justice R. Basant on Monday reserved order on a bail petition filed by Govindankutty who was arrested from Kakkanad in Kochi on sedition charges.

He was arrested in a raid conducted following the arrest of two Maoist leaders from Hyderabad.