Thread by @LegalLro

Judges have either ingrained fear of #Church money, muscle power or soft corner!
Sister Lucy Kalappura is running post to pillars for justice- for woman rights but she didn't get judicial patronage which non existent #Sabarimala woman entry issue got!
Judges sans Justice! +

Franciscan Clarist Congregation where Sister Lucy serving since age of 17 yrs has 750 NGOs under its umbrella, hundreds of it having #FCRA which we will strike soon!
That's the brute force which is forcing Indian judiciary to deny her police protection!
Kudos to her courage!+

Lawyers backtracking from taking up her fight legally withdrawing as Church money power flows in to force them to stay away from Sister Lucy!
Self styled women rights activists uttering no word out of #Church money- muscle power. No Badi Bindi @cpimspeak leader standing by her+

Sister Lucy is accused of flouting Church norms of austerity at d time when Bishop Mulakkal like rapist violating #Christian clergy's celibacy norms still continues to serve in #Church hierarchy! Sister Lucy took part in protest against rapist Bishop!
Isn't it shamelessness? +

Sister Lucy, took part in a protest by nuns belonging to Missionaries of Jesus Congregation seeking arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, so expelled by the FCC under the Roman #Catholic Church in August 2019
Expelled for seeking justice to rape victim nun+

Same #Catholic Church breathlessly blabbers about so called fundamental rights violation under @narendramodi @AmitShah regime n has zero respect n shame for violating same rights of woman in own hierarchy!
Judiciary has proven once again it has no jurisdiction over Church+

Sister Lucy said, "From denial of food and social exclusion inside the Convent to cyber bullying, life threat and fabricated stories outside...I have been facing these for the last some years since I have started questioning the unacceptable practices of the system," +

There were attempts to throw her out of her room, block her entry into the kitchen to cook food or drink water, damage the toilet and deny power supply by destroying switch boards inside the convent, she further charged+

She even had to launch a hunger strike in front of the Convent to get power supply restored in the corridor near her room, following which police intervened last month+

If any ordinary woman faces such a situation in her spouse's house, she can approach the legal system of the land and lodge a complaint of harassment.
But, in the case of a nun, it is very tough to take such a decision, she said+

The expelled nun said though the church and the congregation authorities expected that she would run away giving up her fight, she was seeing all these hardships as the God-given chance to "educate and empower" women in fighting challenges and upholding their dignity in life+

Church reform activist Indulekha Joseph said the alleged harassment in nunneries and congregations could be stopped only if the government comes out with a legislation in this regard+

A social stigma is attached to those who are coming out of the nunneries and decide to live an ordinary life and so a majority of nuns would prefer to suffer all the alleged hardships there silently, Indulekha Joseph, who has been fighting for reforms in the Church, said +

Sister Lucy's case is classic case study which exposes #Catholic Church hypocrisy, #Communist @cpimspeak shamelessness, Indian Judiciary's two separate sets of standards while dealing with #Hindu religious issues n #Christian #Muslim religious issues+

Also Sister Lucy's torture pushed Indian overzealous feminism n feminist activists into self imposed hibernation as they are not allowed to rally behind oppressed #Catholic Nun which are being fed n nurtured by #Catholic Church!