Magistrate, by his order dated 23/6/2000 rejected the report as unsatisfactory and directed the CBI to conduct further investigation. In the light of above, investigation was transferred from CBI at New Delhi to CBI, Cochin Branch. Yet another report was filed after investigation on 25/8/2005, again requesting the court to close the case as untraced one. This was also rejected by the Chief Judicial Magistrate by order dated 21/8/2006. Thereafter, the CBI continued the further investigation and the final report was filed by the then Dy.S.P. Nandakumar Menon on 17/7/2009, arraying a nun who had stayed in the above convent during the relevant time and two priests, as accused. They were charged with offences under sections 302,201,449 read with section 34 IPC. It was alleged that the third accused nun was found in the company of the first and second accused during early hours on 27/3/1992, near the kitchen, by sister Abhaya and to silence her, they committed her murder and dropped the body into the well. V.V.Augustine, the initial investigating officer, was accused of having manipulated the evidence. Though he was arrayed as an accused, since he had died on 25/11/2008, he was not charge sheeted.
