{"id":304533,"date":"2018-10-22T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304533"},"modified":"2018-10-22T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:54:16","slug":"kerala-nun-rape-case-key-witness-father-kuriakose-kattuthara-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-nun-rape-case-key-witness-father-kuriakose-kattuthara-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala nun rape case: Key witness Father Kuriakose Kattuthara found dead"},"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-299838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Father Kuriakose Kattuthara, a priest of the Jalandhar diocese, who had given a statement against rape-accused bishop Franko Mulakkal, was found dead on October 22 morning in Dasuya\u00a0 of Punjab&#8217;s Hoshiarpur district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A police officer said that no injury marks were found but there were signs he had vomited. Blood pressure medicine was also found near him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday in the morning at 10, he didn\u2019t wake up, so the sisters went and checked on him. When he didn\u2019t open the door, they called for help. The door was then broken and Kuriakose was found unconscious and there was vomit in the room. We took him to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead,\u201d Father Peter from Jalandhar diocese reportedly said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Father Kattuthara&#8217;s family alleges that the death is suspicious and is set to file a police complaint in connection with the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jose Kattuthara, Kattuthara\u2019s Kerala-based brother, reportedly said, that he had received a call from Father Michael Annikuzhikatil in Jalandhar informing him about his brother\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have serious doubts over his death and believe that he was killed,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While ruling out family&#8217;s suspicion in Kuriakose\u2019s death, Father Peter said that the reason for the family\u2019s suspicion was his statement against Mulakkal. \u201cWe are not enemies, we are all good friends,\u201d he added.<\/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 granted conditional bail by the Kerala High Court last week. He was arrested after being accused of repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting a nun between the\u00a0year 2014 and 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Kuriakose Kattuthara, a priest of the Jalandhar diocese, who had given a statement against rape-accused bishop Franko Mulakkal, was found dead on October 22 morning in Dasuya\u00a0 of Punjab&#8217;s Hoshiarpur district. A police officer said that no injury marks were found but there were signs he had vomited. Blood pressure medicine was also found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[6713,6712,5106,6715,279,6714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304533"}],"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=304533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304539,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304533\/revisions\/304539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}