Acquitted in nun rape case by trial court, Franco Mulakkal says ‘praise the lord’

Friday, 14 January 2022newsdesk

An additional sessions court in Kottayam on Friday acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal in the sensational case pertaining to the rape of a catholic nun. Mulakkal had been the bishop of Jalandhar, but had been divested of the administrative charges after the scandal emerged in 2018.

New Delhi, 14 January 2022

“Daivathinu sthuthi (Praise the Lord!)” Mulakkal told reporters, before leaving the court premises. He broke down in court and embraced his lawyers when the verdict was announced. As per news report of The Indian Express, Mulakkal had been arrested in September, 2018 in connection with the complaint of a nun, who had alleged that Mulakkal had raped her 13 times at her Congregation’s mission house in Kottayam district, over a period of two years from May 5, 2014. He had been the first Indian Catholic bishop to be arrested in a rape case and was lodged in judicial custody for 25 days after his arrest in September, 2018.

Source - The Indian Express