The noose of law seems to be tightening further for Latin Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal of the Jalandhar Diocese, accused of raping a senior Catholic nun several times, with the Kerala Police reportedly finding out that he was lying when he claimed that he was not at the place where the victim said he had abused her on the particular date she had mentioned in her complaint. When the police had questioned the Bishop on the night of August 13 at the diocesan headquarters in Jalandhar, Punjab he had told them that he was not present at a guest house attached to the St Francis Mission Home, the nun’s convent at Kuravilangad in Kottayam district on May 5, 2014, the place where and date on which she said he had raped her for the first time.

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