Kerala nun rape case: Bishop Franco chargesheeted

April 09, 2019 15:41

Almost a year after allegedly raping a nun, a chargesheet has been filed against Bishop Franco Mulakkal.

The chargesheet was submitted before the Judicial First Class Magistrate. In June last year, a senior nun had alleged rape by Mulakkal, the head of the Latin diocese of Jalandhar. The nun said she was sexually assaulted multiple times since May 2014 at the church's guest house in Kuruvilangad. She said that she had approached the church hierarchy but her repeated pleas were ignored, after which she decided to go the police. Her fellow nuns took to the streets, staged protests, thus forming what was possibly the biggest rebellion that India's church had seen from the inside.

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