Kerala courtroom permits Sister Lucy to remain at FCC convent
By PTI
WAYANDA: A courtroom right here has allowed sister Lucy Kalappura to remain on the convent of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC) till the case concerning her eviction is determined.
Sister Kalappura instructed PTI that the Munsiff courtroom at Mananthavady on Friday allowed her prayer to remain on the convent until the matter earlier than the courtroom is disposed of.
She additional mentioned an in depth order is awaited.
Recently, the Kerala High Court had mentioned police safety towards eviction can’t be supplied to Kalappura, who has been expelled from the FCC for alleged violations of its guidelines, on the Karackamala convent, the place she is presently staying.
The nun, who had argued her case in individual, instructed the excessive courtroom that she has challenged the order of eviction towards her earlier than a civil courtroom and until that’s determined she needs to proceed staying on the convent.
The courtroom had referred the case again to the Munsiff courtroom.
The High Court had mentioned that her life and property will be protected by the police at some other place of residence, however not on the convent.
She had instructed the High Court that it could withdraw the police safety granted to her, however she ought to be allowed to remain on the convent as she has no different place to go to.
Sister Kalappura, who took half in a protest by nuns belonging to Missionaries of Jesus Congregation in search of the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, was expelled by the FCC below the Roman Catholic Church in August 2019.
The congregation, in its discover, had termed as “grave violations” Sister Lucy possessing a driving licence, shopping for a automotive, taking a mortgage for it and publishing a ebook and spending cash with out the permission and information of her superiors and the Vatican had ratified the choice.
However, Sister Kalappura has denied the fees levelled towards her by the congregation, saying a lot of them had been a “deliberate try to color her in unhealthy gentle.
