Justice is almost 30 years late! The Indian nun was brutally murdered for breaking the priest's scandal, and the father took a minibus for several hours a day to the police station to ask for the truth

Source: Global Times

A nun in the southern Indian state of Kerala was brutally murdered in 1992 by a priest who broke up a monastery and another nun in a dormitory, and her body was thrown into a local well. For years, the authorities have failed to bring the killer to justice, even arguing that the deceased was a "suicide" and trying to use this as a hasty case. After nearly 30 years, the truth of the case was finally revealed, the victims were wronged, and the priests and nuns involved were sentenced to life imprisonment.

According to CNN reported on the 24th, in 1992, Abia, who was only 19 years old at the time, studied at a convent-funded church school in Godyam, Kerala. On the day of the incident, Abia got up at 4:15 a.m. to prepare for the exam, and when she went to the kitchen to get water, she found Father Cotttur and Nun Sepfi doing something indescribable. Father Cottthur was responsible for teaching psychology at the school, while Serfi was the housekeeper of the monastery's dormitories. After being discovered by Abia, they brutally slammed Abia in the head with a small axe, beat her to death and threw her into a well near her dormitory.

After a year-long investigation, the local police actually believed that Abia had died of "suicide." In this regard, Abia's father Thomas was completely unacceptable and asked india's Central Bureau of Investigation to intervene in the investigation. In 1993, India's Central Bureau of Investigation formally took over the case, but no progress was made in the 12 years until 2005.

The case took a turn for the worse in 2009 when the CIA's Kerala Bureau finally arrested Kottur, Serfi and another priest, Botrick Kayir, on suspicion of murder 17 years after the incident (later dropped for lack of evidence). Last December, the killers were finally tried justice. The matter was also widely reported by the media in recent days.

CNN reported that the truth was ultimately revealed through the tireless efforts of Abia's family, especially her father, and activists. "Father Thomas had to take a minibus for hours a day, going back and forth between home and the police station, constantly demanding that the police give back the social media to the truth," said Abia's brother Biju Thomas.

Today, although the main culprit was punished, Abia's parents died in 2015, and they cannot witness this "belated justice." Because of this, some Indian media are still torturing why this seemingly uncomplicated murder case came to light nearly 30 years later.