Hindustan Times: Four of the five nuns of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation, who supported their colleagues when she levelled rape charges against former bishop of Jalandhar Franco Mullakkal, have been asked to leave the convent in Kuravilangad of Kerala’s Kottayam. “You have chosen in your own individual capacity to support and pursue the legal battle in Crime no 746/2018 in Kuravilangad police station. Our congregation does not want to make any sort of intervention in the due process of law and you shall be free to carry on the judicial process as and when required,” the letter sent by mother superior general K Regina to Sister Anupama said.
“You are urged not to make your legal obligation an alibi to compromise our affirmed religious vows and principles of community life,” it said.
A 43-year-old nun, also a mother superior, had lodged a police complaint in June last year that Mullakkal had raped her 13 times between 2014 and 2016. The five nuns later staged a sit-in protest in Kochi seeking his arrest. The special investigation team had arrested him in September after several rounds of questioning.
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