Bishop Mulakkal fully cooperative in the 7 hour long investigation

​Kochi: Bishop Mulakkal who was accused of raping a nun was investigated for seven hours on Wednesday. Its understood that Mulakkal was very cooperative and continued to answer the questions raised by Police. Everyone is hoping that decision on his arrest will be taken soon. Kerala high court has also posted the anticipatory bail to 25th September. 

Police chose the Tirpunithura as the place for investigation as it had got modern facilities like hidden cameras, microphones, two way mirrors, and wireless devices. It enables closer monitoring of the suspect and it also helps in interrogating with live inputs from outside. 

Many teams were present in the jurisdiction at the time of questioning. This time the questioning got intense and Bishop was asked 150 questions for which he was cooperating well. It is also known that the previous investigations have helped the police ask more number of questions as they now have gotten more evidence. The Bishop is also seen to be changing his answers from what he had given in the Jalandhar investigation.  

In Wednesday’s investigation he had changed his answer where he accepted that he had gone to St Francis Mission Home at Kuravilangad where the crime happened, and he says that he went there but did not stay at the home. The facts are now slowly coming out and everyone in the investigation team and the officers are expecting that the conclusion will be out soon. They believe that answers given by Bishop are now more corroborated and there is good chance of coming to a conclusion. 

During the course of investigation Bishop was offered Lunch, which he ignored and subsisted on water. People like Vaikom DSP K Subash, Kottayam SP Hari Shankar, Kochi DCP J Himendranath and Crime Branch ACP Biji George were all present at the investigation centre. The questioning is going to continue on Thursday as well which would be the ending days for this case.