Jalandhar: Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who is accused in the Kerala nun rape case, has stepped down, amid reports that case has been brought to the notice of the Vatican.
Bishop Franco Mulakkal said in a letter, “I am likely to be called for further clarifications by investigating officer in Kerala.”
The nun had recently sought urgent intervention of the Vatican for justice and demanded the bishop’s removal as the head of the Jalandhar diocese, questioning why the church was “closing its eyes to the truth”, when she had mustered courage to make public her suffering.
She alleged that Bishop Mulakkal was using “political and money power” to “bury” the case against him. The nun has accused the clergyman of repeated sexual assault between 2014 and 2016.
However, the bishop has dismissed the allegations as “baseless and concocted”.