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Kottayam: Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal, arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a nun, was on Monday remanded to a 12-day judicial custody by a magistrate court in Kottayam district.
Mulakkal was produced before the court after completing his two-day police custody. The court remanded him to judicial custody till October 6.
The clergyman has been shifted to the sub-jail in Pala after completing his medical examination at a government hospital there.
On Sunday, the bishop was taken to the St Francis Mission Home in Kuravilangad, where he had allegedly raped the nun, to reconstruct the crime scene.
However, the bishop has denied the rape charges made by the nun. (PTI)

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