INDIA
The News Minute
TNM Staff
Saturday, June 03, 2017
Kottiyoor priest Robin Vadakkumchery, accused of raping and impregnating a minor girl, has approached the High Court seeking bail.
The Catholic priest’s justification for seeking bail is that his custody was not required any more as police had completed investigation in the case and has filed the final report, Times of India reports.
Robin Vadakkumchery was arrested on February 28 while he was trying to escape to Canada.
The arrest came three weeks after the girl’s delivery. She gave birth to the child on February 7 in Kannur. The child, a boy, was reportedly sent to an adoption centre run by nuns.
The priest had first tried to implicate the girl’s father as the accused in the case whereas the girl’s parents kept her in the dark about the childbirth. They told her that she was operated on for appendicitis.
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