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Sister Lucy Kalapurakkal had last year supported the victim nun and had demanded the arrest of rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who headed the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar.  

Sister Anupama, one of the five nuns who led the protests against Franco on August 2018, expressed her fear over sabotaging the case after a local court in Pala, Kerala found irregularities in the copies of the cyber forensic report submitted in a DVD by the police and laboratory. 

The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council spokesperson Varghese Vallikkat, a priest, said the decision to give the award to the cartoon was “highly provocative and objectionable”.

Bishop Agnelo has written a letter to the nuns stating that he was giving a directive to Regina Kadamthottu, Superior General of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation, not to issue any letters to the five nuns without his explicit permission.

Hermann Geissler, who was the Chief of staff in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been accused of sex abuse by a former nun of the Church named Doris Wagner-Reisinger

The letter from the superior-general reportedly accused Sister Rose of not cooperating with her local convent head and her “revolutionary approach”. It further says the nun’s refusal to “fall in line” raises severe questions about her commitment to the vow of obedience.

The three nuns who have been transferred are reportedly very critical of the victim and supporting nuns and were also part of a team which visited Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Delhi pleading innocence of Franco.

Pastor Pradhan has been charged for rape under the IPC and aggravated sexual assault under the Protection of Children from the Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act.

Rape accused Bishop Franco received a huge welcome after he was released by the Kerala High Court on a conditional bail.

The Congregation went on to allege that the nuns have the support of terrorist groups, anti-social groups are behind the agitations against the Catholic church.