India, Aug. 12 -- Thirty-eight years after the death of a pre-university student in Dharmasthala, her sister has asked the special investigation team (SIT) to reopen the case and exhume the remains to aid a fresh investigation.

Indravati, a resident of Nelyadi, appeared before the SIT on Monday, claiming her sister was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered. She said Padmalatha, daughter of the late Devananda, was a II PUC student at SDM College, Ujire, when she went missing on December 22, 1986.

"Thirty-eight years ago, my sister Padmalatha, who was studying in the second PUC at SDM College. She went to college on December 22, 1986 at Ujire, returned to Dharmasthala and went missing in the evening. Her decomposed body was found on ...