He was Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar since 2013.
June 2018:
43-year-old nun belonging to Missionaries of Jesus congregation, alleged that she was sexually abused by Franco Mulakkal during his visits between 2014 & 2016 to Kerala.
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Sept 2018:
Kottayam-based nun made a fervent appeal to Vatican’s representative in India,
seeking justice in her 7 page letter.
She said that Franco is having “eagle’s eye” on a few other MJ sisters & that 20 sisters have left the org.
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After getting no help from the Chcurch, Nuns approached Kerala Police.
FIR was lodged against Franco Mulakkal.
21 Sept, 2018: @policektm arrested bishop & remanded him to judicial custody.
Finally, he was temporarily relieved of from diocese by @Pontifex.
In Tamil Nadu, there once was a cremation ground of Hindus in the name of “Rudrabhoomi”.
This is the story of how WAQF tried to make it their own by continuously fighting.
But FAILED.
Pic: a random Hindu burial ground
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The land in question was historically used as a burial ground by Hindus but was closed by the municipality in 1867 due to health concerns, with an alternative site allocated for burials.
Pic: logo of Municipal Corporation
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Since it was a burial ground anymore, Hindus purchased the land at a valuable price.
Sometime later, Muslims started claiming burial rights of the land.
They even formed a committe named-
Salim Muslim Burial Ground Protection Committee.
Manipur has 3 major ethnical groups: 1. Meitei 2. Naga 3. Kuki
Meitei are mostly Hindus while
Naga & Kuki follows Christianity.
The current ongoing violence at Manipur is by Christian Naga and Kuki against Hindu Meitei.
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In 1949, Meitei were 64% in Manipur.
Religious Population:
Hindu ~ 50%
Christian ~ 35-40%
Since religion doesn’t matter for declaration under Scheduled Tribe,
Meitei approached High Court of Manipur seeking reservation in Scheduled Tribe category.
Sh @narendramodi came into power by promising to eradicate corruption.
Opposition started asking about outcome.
When Modi started taking actions,
opposition claimed revenge.
Now, 14 opposition parties, approached Supreme Court.
But Supreme Court refused to entertain them.
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14 parties approached Supreme Court alleging “arbitrary use” of central agencies like CBI & ED against opposition leaders.
Parties are:
Congress
DMK
RJD
BRS
TMC
AAP
Nationalist Congress Party(NCP)
Shiv Sena (UBT)
JMM
JD(U)
CPI(M)
CPI
Samajwadi Party
J&K National Conference
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While seeking Special Treatment,
14 Political Parties to Supreme Court:
There has been an alarming rise in use of coercive criminal processes against opposition political leaders & other citizens exercising fundamental right to dissent & disagree with BJP govt in centre.