{"id":304287,"date":"2018-10-17T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304287"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:15:52","slug":"rape-accused-bishop-franco-mulakkal-gets-rousing-welcome-in-jalandhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rape-accused-bishop-franco-mulakkal-gets-rousing-welcome-in-jalandhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal gets rousing welcome in Jalandhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rape-accused-bishop-franco-mulakkal-gets-rousing-welcome-in-jalandhar\/mulakkal-jalandhar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304288\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304288 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mulakkal-jalandhar-300x166.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/mulakkal-jalandhar-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/mulakkal-jalandhar-696x385.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/mulakkal-jalandhar.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a>Franco Mulakkal, a senior Catholic priest, who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting a nun multiple times at a convent in Kerala was welcomed with rose petals and garlanded by his supporters as he reached Jalandhar on Wednesday. Franco was released from a Jail in Kerala on October 16 after being granted conditional bail by Kerala High Court on October 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In its order, the High Court has directed Mulakkal to appear before the police once in two weeks till the final report is ready and has also seized his passport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mulakkal, who was heading 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>Franco Mulakkal, a senior Catholic priest, who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting a nun multiple times at a convent in Kerala was welcomed with rose petals and garlanded by his supporters as he reached Jalandhar on Wednesday. Franco was released from a Jail in Kerala on October 16 after being granted conditional bail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[5104,5105,5106,466,279,5638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304287"}],"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=304287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304290,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304287\/revisions\/304290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}