Murder in a Convent: When a Nun Witnessed the ‘Unholy’

Homicide in 1992, a verdict in 2020!

Sister Abhaya. photo by the author, captured from Bar and Bench

March 27, 1992, 4 AM: Sister Abhaya, a nun in St. Joseph’s Congregation for religious sisters under the Knanaya Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam, Kerala(a south Indian state), had just woken up.

The 18-year-old Abhaya wanted to finish significant portions of her lessons early in the…