A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday suspended the sentence of life imprisonment awarded by the Thiruvananthapuram CBI Special Court to Fr. Thomas M. Kottoor and Sister Sephy, convicts in the Sister Abhaya murder case.
The Bench comprising Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice C. Jayachandran also granted them bail. The order came on a petition seeking to suspend their sentences and grant them bail, filed by the convicts along with their appeals against the CBI Special Court verdict.
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