INDIA
Al Jazeera
September 12, 2018
By Zeenat Saberin
The decision to question Franco Mulakkal came following days of protests in Kerala by women’s groups.
Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have summoned a bishop accused of raping a Catholic nun for questioning, following days of protests by a collective of nuns, women’s groups and activists.
The Indian media on Wednesday reported that Franco Mulakkal, head of the Jalandhar diocese in northern Punjab state, has finally been summoned and is likely to be questioned on September 19.
The decision to question Mulakkal came on the fifth day of a sit-in protest in Kerala, demanding action against the bishop accused of sexually assaulting the 46-year-old Catholic nun from the Catholic congregation Missionaries of Jesus.
The nun has alleged that Mulakkal raped her repeatedly between 2014-2016 at a convent in Kerala.
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