Face saver for the CBI

Sir,
Eventually the CBI saved its face by arresting two priests and a nun in association with the case related to the murder of Sr Abhaya. Congratulations to media for its untiring effort to bring this infamous long lagging case to a turning point. The case is one which proved the ineptitude of the Executive and the Bureaucracy. The arrests in the case made after 16 years of investigations prove the efficacy of Judiciary and the media. The pending nature of the case indicates how influential the arrested are. The confidence of the parents of Sr Abhaya that they would get justice in the case is commendable.

The officers of the local police who investigated the case and wrote it off as one of suicide should also be arrested. The doctor who conducted the postmortem and reported the case as suicide and the chemical analysts who tampered the laboratory results also should be punished. The role of local leaders in perverting the case also should be investigated.

K A Solaman