<p class="title">Soon after the prime <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/breaking-priest-who-deposed-699112.html" target="_blank">witness on the Kerala nun rape case died under mysterious circumstances </a>in Punjab, members of the 'Save Our Sisters Action Council', which had <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/protest-against-bishop-enters-693496.html" target="_blank">recently protested against Bishop Franco Mulakkal</a>, the accused, met chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking protection for the victim and those who supported her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The members met Vijayan and informed him that the victim and the other nuns who supported her feared for their lives and sought protection for them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The protest was held recently in Kochi demanding the Bishop's arrest, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a release, Fr Augustine Vettoly, convener of the action council, said they also wanted the probe to be conducted in a time-bound manner, a special court to be set up for trial proceedings and special prosecutor appointed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The members also met Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishanan and wanted P C George, MLA, who had made several allegations against the victim, to be removed from the ethics committee and debarred, the release said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In her complaint to the Kottayam Police in June, the rape victim alleged that Mulakkal raped her at a guest house in Kuravilangad in May 2014 and later sexually exploited her on several occasions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Mulakkal denied the charges as "baseless and concocted," insisting she levelled those as the Catholic order had rejected her demand for favours. </p>
<p class="title">Soon after the prime <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/breaking-priest-who-deposed-699112.html" target="_blank">witness on the Kerala nun rape case died under mysterious circumstances </a>in Punjab, members of the 'Save Our Sisters Action Council', which had <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/protest-against-bishop-enters-693496.html" target="_blank">recently protested against Bishop Franco Mulakkal</a>, the accused, met chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking protection for the victim and those who supported her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The members met Vijayan and informed him that the victim and the other nuns who supported her feared for their lives and sought protection for them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The protest was held recently in Kochi demanding the Bishop's arrest, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a release, Fr Augustine Vettoly, convener of the action council, said they also wanted the probe to be conducted in a time-bound manner, a special court to be set up for trial proceedings and special prosecutor appointed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The members also met Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishanan and wanted P C George, MLA, who had made several allegations against the victim, to be removed from the ethics committee and debarred, the release said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In her complaint to the Kottayam Police in June, the rape victim alleged that Mulakkal raped her at a guest house in Kuravilangad in May 2014 and later sexually exploited her on several occasions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Mulakkal denied the charges as "baseless and concocted," insisting she levelled those as the Catholic order had rejected her demand for favours. </p>