KOCHI: The state government on Thursday submitted before the Kerala High Court that Sr Mary Ancy of Holy Spirit Convent, Thiruvananthapuram, had committed suicide.“She pushed open the slab of the water tank situated on the southern side of the convent and jumped into it, ending her life willfully,” the report said.
The investigating officer, Fort Sub division Assistant Commissioner M Radhakrishnan Nair, also submitted that there was no involvement of anyone else in Ancy’s death.
The officer submitted the report in response to a petition filed by Mathai Philip, father of the nun, seeking a CBI probe into the incident.
“No injury was noted on Sr Mary Ancy’s body and her death occurred owing to drowning. Doctors opined that there would have been injuries on the body if a person was forcefully pushed into the tank,” the report said. The petitioner had submitted that the death was suspicious because Ancy could not have moved the slab alone. However, the police pointed out that any person, even a woman , could remove the slab. Ancy was the person responsible for filling and clearing the tank. A woman of the same health and physical features as that of Ancy can move the slab easily.
The police also submitted that Ancy was under severe mental distress because of her allergic condition.
Sr Ancy was found dead in a water tank on the convent premises at Poonkulam in Thiruvananthapuram on August 17. The investigating officer further submitted that they had questioned and recorded the statements of 107 witnesses.
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