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Police identified the victim as Stella Maria, 35, a member of the Sacred Heart convent at Uluppuni near Vagamon
A Catholic nun was found dead in a well at her convent in Kerala’s Idukki district on Tuesday morning.
Police identified the victim as Stella Maria, 35, a member of the Sacred Heart convent at Ulupponi near Vagamon.
Police have started an investigation into the case.
The nun was suffering from depression earlier, police said, adding it is suspected that she had committed suicide last night at her Ullupponi convent.
Preliminary information is that it is a case of suicide, Idukki police told PTI.
The body has been sent to Kottayam Medical College for post-mortem.
In September this year, a 69-year-old nun of a convent at Pala in Kottayam district was found murdered in her room. One person was arrested in connection with the murder.
In 1992, the body of 19-year-old Catholic Nun, sister Abhaya, was found in the well of St Pius X convent at Kottayam.
Though crime branch had initially concluded it as a case of suicide, on a plea by her parents, CBI took over the investigation. The CBI concluded that Abhaya had been murdered, but they sought closure of the case due to lack of evidence, which was turned down by a CBI court in Kochi.
In 2008, two priests– father Jose Putarika, Father Thomas Kottor, and sister Seffi, were arrested by CBI and in July 2009, charges of murder, destruction of evidence, and defamation were filed against them.
CBI had found that Abhaya had been hacked to death with an axe by the two priests and the nun.
- See more at: Catholic nun found dead in a well at convent in Kerala | The Indian Express
A Catholic nun was found dead in a well at her convent in Kerala’s Idukki district on Tuesday morning.
Police identified the victim as Stella Maria, 35, a member of the Sacred Heart convent at Ulupponi near Vagamon.
Police have started an investigation into the case.
The nun was suffering from depression earlier, police said, adding it is suspected that she had committed suicide last night at her Ullupponi convent.
Preliminary information is that it is a case of suicide, Idukki police told PTI.
The body has been sent to Kottayam Medical College for post-mortem.
In September this year, a 69-year-old nun of a convent at Pala in Kottayam district was found murdered in her room. One person was arrested in connection with the murder.
In 1992, the body of 19-year-old Catholic Nun, sister Abhaya, was found in the well of St Pius X convent at Kottayam.
Though crime branch had initially concluded it as a case of suicide, on a plea by her parents, CBI took over the investigation. The CBI concluded that Abhaya had been murdered, but they sought closure of the case due to lack of evidence, which was turned down by a CBI court in Kochi.
In 2008, two priests– father Jose Putarika, Father Thomas Kottor, and sister Seffi, were arrested by CBI and in July 2009, charges of murder, destruction of evidence, and defamation were filed against them.
CBI had found that Abhaya had been hacked to death with an axe by the two priests and the nun.
- See more at: Catholic nun found dead in a well at convent in Kerala | The Indian Express
