A senior Catholic priest found on a railway track with his throat cut in Andhra Pradesh State in southern India was buried in his home parish on Dec. 12 even as mystery shrouds his death.
The body of 62-year-old Father Santosh Chepathini, priest of Chinta-kani Parish in Khammam Diocese in Telangana State in southern India, was found close to Vijaywada railway station in Andhra Pradesh early on Dec. 10 by a railway patrol team.