Fugitive Catholic priest arrested in Tamil Nadu

INDIA
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By IANS,

Chennai : Catholic priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was arrested in Erode in Tamil Nadu on charges of molesting a child in the US when he was there during 2004, police said Saturday.

Acting on an alert by Interpol, Tamil Nadu police arrested Rev Jeyapaul, 57, Friday evening and presented him in a court in Erode which ordered that he be handed over to Interpol officials in New Delhi.

The Tamil Nadu police had traced Rev Jeyapaul to a church in Erode, around 335 km from here.

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