PTI, KOTTAYAM/KOCHI: Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal, arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a nun, was remanded to a 12-day judicial custody by a court in Kerala’s Kottayam district on Monday.
Mulakkal was produced before the Pala magistrate court after completion of his two-day police custody. The court remanded him to judicial custody till October 6. The clergyman has been shifted to the sub-jail in Pala after medical examination at a hospital there.
Meanwhile, the priest moved a bail plea in the Kerala High Court on Monday, after it was rejected by the magistrate court on Saturday. Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan posted the plea on Thursday for consideration.
The court said the anticipatory bail plea filed by the bishop last week had become infructuous with his arrest.
A high court division bench, comprising Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar, on Monday disposed a bunch of petitions, including those seeking protection to the nun and a court-monitored probe, in view of the police action against the senior priest.
