The Additional District and Sessions Court I in Kottayam on January 14 cleared Bishop Franco Mulakkal, previous top of the Latin Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar, of all accuses in association of an assault grumbling documented by a religious woman in a similar ward.
“Acclaim the Lord”, the Bishop told media people, while arising out of the court after the decision. He likewise separated and accepted his legal advisors following the judgment
Prior in the day, the police had expanded security on the court premises by thinking about a potential emergency in the lawfulness circumstance.
In view of an assault objection held up by a religious woman on June 29, 2018, the minister was captured on September 21 that very year. He was in prison for 25 days after the court remanded him.
The chargesheet against the Bishop, which comprised of 2,000 pages in three volumes, was submitted on April 4, 2019. The preliminary for the situation initiated in November 2019 and finished up on January 10. Of the 83 observers recorded by the indictment, 39 were analyzed during the preliminary.
The observers included Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, Bishop Kurian Valiyakandathil, Bishop of Bhagalpur in Bihar, and Bishop Sebastian Vadakkel of the ward of Ujjain, and 11 ministers and 25 nuns.