{"id":303831,"date":"2018-10-06T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T08:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303831"},"modified":"2018-10-06T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T08:22:02","slug":"kerala-court-extends-the-judicial-custody-of-bishop-franco-mulakkal-till-october-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-court-extends-the-judicial-custody-of-bishop-franco-mulakkal-till-october-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Court extends the judicial custody of Bishop Franco Mulakkal till October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302862 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bishop-franco-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bishop-franco-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bishop-franco-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bishop-franco-556x420.jpg 556w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bishop-franco.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala court extended the judicial custody of Bishop Franco Mulakkal on Saturday till October 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mulakkal was arrested on the charge of raping a nun between 2014 and 2016. He was produced before Judge M Lekshmi of the Pala Judicial Magisterial Court, who extended his judicial custody for another two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kerala High Court on October 3 rejected the bail application of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, the Catholic bishop on the grounds that there is apparent evidence against the bishop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court also added that the allegations against the bishop are serious and he occupies a high position in the church that he can influence witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bishop was arrested on September 21 after three days of questioning and on September 24 he was sent to judicial custody by the very same court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Franco Mulakkal, who heads the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar, Punjab, is the first bishop in the country to be arrested on rape charges.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala court extended the judicial custody of Bishop Franco Mulakkal on Saturday till October 20. Mulakkal was arrested on the charge of raping a nun between 2014 and 2016. He was produced before Judge M Lekshmi of the Pala Judicial Magisterial Court, who extended his judicial custody for another two weeks. The Kerala High Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[5338,466,5445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303834,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303831\/revisions\/303834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}