NEW DELHI (INDIA)
The Associated Press
July 12, 2018
Police on Thursday arrested one of the four church priests accused of raping a woman over years in southern India.
The accused surrendered to the police, who arrested him after questioning, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Police also were questioning another priest in Kollam, a city in Kerala state, and looking for two other accused.
They were denied pre-arrest bail by a court on Wednesday. Justice R. Vijayaraghavan said that the evidence indicates the priests acted as predators. “They appeared to have undertaken undue advantage of the position of the complainant,” the justice said.
The priests deny the accusation. There was no immediate comment by their Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
The complainant’s husband told reporters that he came to know about the abuse in February this year when he noticed a bank statement about a hotel transaction in his wife’s email inbox.
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