{"id":304137,"date":"2018-10-15T07:05:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304137"},"modified":"2018-10-15T07:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:05:34","slug":"kerala-high-court-grants-conditional-bail-to-bishop-franco-mulakkal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-high-court-grants-conditional-bail-to-bishop-franco-mulakkal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala High Court grants conditional bail to Bishop Franco Mulakkal"},"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=\" wp-image-304138 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bishop-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/bishop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/bishop-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/bishop.jpg 728w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/bishop-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/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 Monday granted conditional bail to\u00a0Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping and sexually assaulting a nun multiple times at a convent in Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In its order, the High Court has directed that Mulkkal\u2019s passport will be seized after his release from the sub-jail in Kottayam.\u00a0He has also been asked to appear before the police once in two weeks till the final report is ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bishop Mulakkal 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. However, His judicial custody was rejected by the Kerala High Court on October 3, citing prima facie evidence against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was the first time in the country that a bishop was arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala High Court on Monday granted conditional bail to\u00a0Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping and sexually assaulting a nun multiple times at a convent in Kerala. In its order, the High Court has directed that Mulkkal\u2019s passport will be seized after his release from the sub-jail in Kottayam.\u00a0He has also been asked to appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[5338,466,5187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304137"}],"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=304137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304139,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304137\/revisions\/304139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}