KOTTAYAM: The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar , Franco Mulakkal has been charged with rape and unnatural sex based on a nun’s complaint. Police moved the chief judicial magistrate’s court here to record the statement of the nun under CrPC Section 164. The court will consider the application on Monday.

The nun was subjected to medical tests on Saturday.

K Subash, Vaikom DSP, said the main content of the complaint was that she was sexually abused several times during 2014-16 at a convent in Kerala .

Police said that it was the bishop, Mulakkal, who had first lodged a complaint against the nun, alleging that he was being threatened. The bishop reportedly said that the nun’s complaint was in retaliation to transferring her on disciplinary grounds.

