Kochi, Wednesday 24 June 2009: The CBI today informed the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court that they would investigate the tampering detected in the CDs containing the results of the Narco Analysis Test of the accused in the Sister Abhaya murder case. In the wake of this, Dr. S Malini who conducted the Narco Analysis Test will be interrogated with in a week.

Statements of C-DIT officials, who detected the tampering in the tape, will also be taken.

When the CBI asked a month’s time to complete the probe, the court denied it and said a decision on the future course of action will be taken tomorrow.

Narco Analysis Tests were conducted on three of the main accused in the case Father Thomas Kottoor, Father Jose Puthrukayil and Sister Sephy at Bangalore CFSL laboratory.

The mystery behind the murder of Sister Abhaya is getting murkier and murkier, the scientific experts from C-DIT who were authorized to inspect the CDs has found earlier that the discs were tampered and edited with the help of computer.

The verification of the compact discs containing the results of the Narco Analysis Test conducted on the accused in the Sister Abhaya death case at the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) in Thiruvananthapuram following direction from Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court.

The court handed over the CDs to the CBI and directed that the verification of the authenticity of the CDs should be conducted in the presence of the Advocate Commissioner appointed by the court.
The CBI had earlier accused, the Forensic Science Laboratory, Bangalore of tampering with the CD, which documented the Narco Analysis Tests conducted on suspects in connection with the Sister Abhaya Murder Case.

Earlier CBI Counsel MVS Namboodiri had demanded an investigation into the role of Assistant Director of FSL, Dr S Malini, in the incident. In the report filed by investigating officer A K Aggarwal, the CBI had maintained the stand that it had received only one CD from FSL against the lab’s claim that it had sent three CDs to the investigating agency