kottayam • Two nuns and a priest here were yesterday taken to Bangalore by the Central Bureau of Investigation to undergo truth serum tests in connection with the mysterious death of a nun, Sister Abhaya, in 1992.

The CBI team had earlier got permission from Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate P D Sarangadharan to conduct the tests on Father Jose Putarika — a former Malayalam professor at the college where Abhaya studied — and two nuns who were inmates of Abhaya’s convent. Abhaya, an inmate of Pious X hostel near here, was found dead in the well of the convent March 27, 1992. The CBI concluded in November 1996 that the death was a homicide but the murderer remained untraced.

Thomas Kottor, the Diocesan chancellor of the Catholic Church here, was subjected to the truth serum test last month. Kottor was a professor of psychology in Abhaya’s college. V V Augustine, a former police official, also underwent the test along with Kottor. The decision to conducts tests on Father Putarika and the two nuns was taken after the CBI claimed it got crucial information from the tests done on Kottor and Augustine.