Lissy Vadakkel is an Indian Roman Catholic nun and member of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation. She is a key witness in the rape case against Bishop

Franco Mulakkal Franco Mulakkal is an Indian prelate of the Latin Catholic Church. He worked as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar from 2013 until his arrest in 2018 on charges of raping a nun. He is the first bishop in Indian Catholic to ...

. In June 1989 Vadakkel was one of four nuns to establish a Catholic school at the Alphonsa Convent in Ramakrishnapur for children of employees at the Singreni Collieries Company. Vadakkel testified in 2018 as a key witness in the rape case against Bishop

of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar / Jullundur ( la, Iullunduren(sis)) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, located in the city of Jalandhar in the ecclesiastical province of Delhi in India. History * 17 January 1952: Estab ...

. After testifying, Vadakkel was confined in a guest house in

Muvattupuzha Muvattupuzha () is a town in the midlands directly to the east of Kochi in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. It is located about from downtown Kochi, and is a growing urban centre in central Kerala. The town is also the starting po ...

. In February 2019 Sister Alphonsa Abraham, superior of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation's Nirmala Province, and three of her deputies were charged by

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

police for wrongful confinement of Vadakkel. In April 2019 she became the first person in India to receive government protection as a "Group A witness" under a new law to protect witnesses in sensitive court cases. The protection was ordered on April 9 by the district judge of

Kottayam Kottayam () is a municipal town in the Indian state of Kerala. Flanked by the Western Ghats on the east and the Vembanad Lake and paddy fields of Kuttanad on the west. It is the district headquarters of Kottayam district, located in south- ...

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