The Most Disturbing Case: Of Sister Abhaya finally Solved After 28 Years ll True Crime

[Music] today's story is both shocking and complicated taking not just a year but nearly a decade to find any justice it's about a 21-year-old nun whose brutal murder in 1992 was finally solved after 28 years in December 2020 this is the story of sister aaya this Story begins in the quiet town of kotam Kerala back in 1992 like many other Christian areas in Kerala kotam was a peaceful place with churches and convents scattered all around these places of worship were an important part of life for the people living there one of the well-known convents in

the area was the St Pas the 10th Convent it had a hostel where many young women came to study and stay many of whom were also nuns among these women was 21-year-old sister ABA a dedicated young woman who had come to the convent to serve God and help others sister OFA was studying at a pre-degree college and like any student she had exams coming up determined to do well she decided to wake up early one morning to get some extra studying done she set her alarm went to bed and woke up around 4:00 a.m. after

greeting a few of her friends in the convent she sat down to begin her studies around that time she felt the need to take a short break she left her book books and went to the kitchen possibly to drink some water or Splash her face with cold water to stay awake the next morning when the other nuns woke up they noticed something unusual sister ABA was missing this seemed strange to them when they went to the kitchen they found a water bottle with its cap open water spilled on the floor and one of sister abaya's

slippers lying there but where was Sister abhaya no one knew the Sur became more urgent and soon they found sister ofa's other slipper near the convent's well and when one of the nuns went near the well and looked inside she was terrified to see sister abaya's lifeless body the fire department arrived the police were called and eventually sister abaya's body was pulled out of the well the nuns and hosel residents were in complete shock just the night before they had shared dinner with her laughed made plans for the future and even got annoyed by her

early morning alarm now that same friend was being carried out lifeless from the well the local police officer VV Augustine arrived as part of the usual process after the body was recovered he wrote a report called a photographer to take pictures of the scene in the body and then sent the body for an autopsy during the autopsy doctors noticed cuts and bruises found a head injury and listed the cause of death as drown drowning even though sister Abaya had a head injury the cause of death was still marked as suicide with the possibility of murder

at that time many people found this explanation hard to believe why would sister Abaya set an alarm just to end her life the fridge door was left open the bottle's cap was off water was spilled and her slipper was left on the floor everything seemed too hurried the story didn't make sense to people many believed that this wasn't a suicide but a murder they also felt that someone was trying to cover up the truth especially because the incident took place inside a Convent sister abaya's death took place in a Convent where hundreds of girls came

to study learn about religion and live such a tragic event happening in a place like that was very unusual this incident along with the suspected coverup deeply unsettled the community an activist named Joan puen paracle formed a committee to seek Justice on April 16th the case was handed over to the crime Branch after a few months of Investigation the crime Branch released its report the case was taken out of the local police's hands and given to the crime Branch who spent months investigating in the end they concluded that sister abaya's death was a suicide by

then sister abhaya had already been buried and her clothes were destroyed leaving very little medical evidence behind however the case had become a huge topic of discussion in carola the media was full of stories and people across the state were coming up with their own theories about what had really happened the nuns were unhappy with how things were going there was pressure from the media from activists and even from society itself naturally the case was passed to a higher authority the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI took over and a fresh investigation began the CBI started

with a new approach looking for fresh Clues and talking to Old Witnesses again everything seemed to be moving smoothly but then something very strange and shocking happened a CBI officer Vargas P Thomas held a press conference in 1994 and revealed something surprising he said that he had been under pressure to declare the case as a suicide because of this he chose to leave his job almost 9 years before he was supposed to retire you can imagine the chaos that followed his statement the case became a big news story again people couldn't understand why it was

getting so confusing where was this pressure coming from why was the case so difficult to solve the CBI team continued to investigate for quite some time even though they didn't have much medical proof later They carried out several dummy tests they made a doll the same size and weight as sister ABA and threw it into the well in different ways they carefully observed where the doll got injured and compared those injuries to the ones found on sister ABA however even after these tests no clear answers came up so in 1996 3 years after the investigation

started a report was submitted it stated we believe this should be treated as a murder case we tried everything possible to find out who might be responsible for this tragic event but despite all our efforts we couldn't get any solid results four years after the incident despite the efforts of the local police the crime branch and now the CBI we still didn't know what really happened to Sister abhaya the earlier report was rejected and a new CBI team was assigned this new team carried out another investigation and by 1999 3 years later they came to

the conclusion that sister abaya's death seemed like a murder the main reason for this conclusion was the medical findings this time not just one doctor but a group of three doctors looked at the body they found several injuries that were not mentioned in the first postmortem report these injuries had been missed earlier now let's go back to the day of the incident many nuns were at the convent and noticed more injuries on sister ofa's body v v Augustine the officer I talked about earlier had even called a photographer to the scene the photographer closely examined

sister abaya's body and took pictures that showed extra marks of injuries not mentioned in the earlier report or postmortem when her body was taken out many nuns were nearby and they also saw these injuries they noted several marks that hadn't been included in the original postmortem report after 7 years of Investigation it became clear that sister abhaya did not take her own life it looked more like a murder but who did it the answer will surprise you even more the CBI admitted we know it's a murder but we still don't know who the Killer is

once again the court refused to accept this report another team was formed and in 2005 a new investigation was done again it was stated that the killers could not be ident ified and once more the court did not accept this report the activists outside part of the action committee were now Angry many talks and conspiracy theories started popping up some media reports suggested that the first investigation was poorly handled they claimed that sister OFA was buried too quickly her clothes were burned and even her diary was destroyed they felt the postmortem was incomplete and suspected

that powerful people were trying to cover this up various theories spread quickly across carala how could such a chaotic scene be part of the case why did the evidence disappear then a new team began investigating again and in 2007 a shocking Revelation came to [Music] light by now the case had been under investigation for 15 years there were many witnesses but some had turned against the case and others had even died many suspects had been questioned but no solid proof was found against anyone then out of nowhere a witness stepped forward offering a key clue

to the case but who was this witness the witness was none other than a thief an ordinary unknown thief from 1992 could his testimony really be trusted surprisingly Not only was his statement taken seriously but it also changed the entire direction of the case if you watch till here please give a like to this video and do complete our 30,000 subscribers thank you this man was a Dakar Raju who admitted that he had committed thefts around 1992 he used to steal from different places sell the stolen items and use the money to feed himself and

his family on March 27th a doar Raju went to Saint Pas Convent with the plan to steal his goal was to to climb to the roof of the convent where there were copper rods and wires meant to protect against lightning take them and sell them he arrived in the dark of night to carry out his theft but what he saw there was so unusual that it stayed in his mind for years he noticed someone sneaking onto the campus in the dark and the presence of that person was very strange he saw a priest there father

Thomas codor this raised a question what was a priest doing in the girls hospit at such a late hour adakar Raju claimed he also saw an Jose putri cayil and sister CI this is where things get really creepy as mentioned earlier Raju had a simple way of working he would steal items from different places and sell them to a scrap dealer that night when he witnessed the strange incident he felt helpless how could he speak up when he was there to commit a crime the next day he read about sister abhaya and then saw the

police's comments about her case that's when he began to feel that something was truly wrong he had gone to steel and if he told anyone about that night he would have to admit to his own crime aakar Raju did something surprising he went to the police and told them what he saw that night imagine what happened next when they heard his story the police listened to his account and then arrested him accusing accusing him of the murder they created A Simple Theory aakar Raju entered the convent that night to steal while he was stealing he

ran into a nun when she screamed he panicked killed her and tossed her body into the well before escaping simple aakar Raju was held for 58 days during which he reportedly faed different kinds of torture he said he was pressured to take the blame for the murder he claimed he was offered bribes money a job help for his children's schooling and even a house if he confessed to the crime his scrap dealer Shamir was also said to be tortured and pushed to blame Raju for everything however both adaka Raju and Shamir refused to back down

when Raju wouldn't give in The Lure of money they threatened him with several false charges but what made him stand firm against this corrupt system it was his honesty later throughout this dirty game adakar Raju was the one who stood strong in his truth the same Petty thief from before whom even the court admired from this point the case takes a new turn the CBI now had two main suspects father Thomas Couture and father Jose Puri Kel in fact a neighbor who lived near the convent claimed he had seen father Thomas Couture's scooter parked there

on the night of March 26th this neighbor went to a nearby shop for tea and when he returned around midnight he noticed the scooter outside the convent at the time he didn't think much of it however later he changed his story saying I said that Under Pressure he was one of many witnesses who turned against the case but hold on when adakar Raju told the police about this they already knew there were some Suspects why didn't they investigate this further why didn't they look into raju's account even a little bit or was someone telling them

to set up Raju Raju was being offered money who had enough money to back that and the biggest question was if Raju was telling the truth what was father codor doing at the convent that night a rumor started to spread that father Coture had told a friend he and sister sephi from the convent were like a married couple even before this many people had raised similar claims some of the nuns in the convent discussed it among themselves and others outside shared their thoughts too finally in 2008 based on raju's statement the CBI named father Thomas

Couture sister sephi and father Jose Puri Kyle as the main suspects in this murder case after this the defense lawyer for the accused tried to undermine witness Raju by painting him as a professional criminal in court Court he brought up about 10 criminal cases against Raju most of which had him as the accused Raju did not deny his criminal past which turned the lawyer's argument against him even though he admitted to his previous crimes Raju stood firm in his testimony determined to seek Justice for sister abaya's murder because of his statement father Thomas Couture sister

sephi and father Jose putri Kyle were all sent to bangaluru for Nar tests the doctor in charge of the tests was named molini the results of the tests were recorded on three CDs which were then sent to the carola Judiciary Court and the carola high court however it was later found that the CDs containing the Narco test results had been tampered with Dr molini was called to explain this issue but she had been suspended some time earlier leaving the Narco test reports incomplete everyone present during the Narco tests was questioned however everyone claimed that no

one had tampered with the CDs to find out the truth the Narco test CDs were sent to the central for development of imaging technology cdit the cdit analyzed the digital evidence and discovered that the first CD belonged to Father Thomas Couture it contained a full recording of 32 minutes and 50 seconds that had been edited more than 30 times the CD of Father Jose 's test was 40 minutes and 55 seconds long and had been edited 19 times the last CD was for sister seph's Narco test which recorded 18 minutes and 42 seconds and had

been edited 23 times after the tampering incident the carola high court ordered the CBI to present the original CDs related to the Narco tests in court within 10 days but just a few days later the original recordings of the Narco tests for father Thomas Couture sister sephi and father Jose were shown on a local TV station in carala how this broadcast happened and Who aired it is still unknown but the original Narco test recordings revealed how father Thomas Coture and father hose committed the murder according to their narot test recordings on the morning of March

27th 1992 sister abhaya woke up at 4:00 a.m. it was quite warm so she went from her hostel room to the fridge to get some water while she was drinking she heard some noises coming from the kitchen when ABA went to check she found father Couture father Jose and sister sephi in a compromising situation in that moment before she could run away they attacked sister abhaya with deadly intent sister sephi grabbed an axe from the kitchen and hit her on the head and the postmortem report confirmed she had head injuries after that they dragged her

to the well and threw her in to cover up their crime after this CD was aired the CBI started questioning all three of them in their office however in 2009 all three were released on bail it was shocking that father hose was cleared of any wrongdoing in this case from 2009 to 2019 many hearings took place and in 2020 the carola high court sentenced father Thomas Coture and sister sephi to life in prison based on the Narco test results and Raju the thief's testimony the court also finded both of them five lak rupees thus after

28 years thanks to a thief one of India's longest running murder mystery cases was finally solved what do you think about this story please share your thoughts in the comments and don't forget to subscribe and complete 30,000 subscribers thank you