INDIA
Times of India
Mahir Haneef | TNN | Mar 7, 2017
KOCHI: A nun, who has been named as accused in a rape case involving a minor girl by a priest at Kottiyoor in Kannur, has approached the Kerala high court seeking anticipatory bail.
The pre-arrest bail plea was filed by sister Ophilia, who was the superintendent of the orphanage.
She and four other nuns are accused of trying to cover up the crime and have been charged with offences under provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). The girl, a plus one student, had given birth to a child at Christuraj Hospital at Koothuparamba.
After the delivery, the child was taken to orphanage where the petitioner was the superintendent. Sister Ophilia is the eighth accused in the case and is accused of not informing the child welfare committee about receiving the child.
In the petition to the high court, the nun said she has nothing to hide and that she had recorded receiving of the child in the register maintained at the orphanage.
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