Kottayam/Kochi, Jul 3 (TOI): The police team investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a nun by Catholic bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar diocese will soon summon him to Kerala for interrogation.

The bishop will be served notice after recording the nun’s statement under CrPC Section 164. The decision came after the team confirmed that as per the convent’s visitors’ book, the bishop stayed there on the days, as alleged in the nun’s complaint.

The chief judicial magistrate court in Kottayam considered the police’s application regarding this on Monday and assigned the Changanassery judicial magistrate to record the statement.

The probe team under Vaikom DSP K Subash also recorded the statements of four nuns residing in the convent. The statement of the remaining two will be taken soon. According to Subash, the four nuns came to know about the alleged abuse from the survivor. She had also given the complaint to various church heads, including the cardinal, keeping them informed.

The complaint of the bishop is also being probed together with the nun’s complaint. Based on the bishop’s complaint, police recorded the statement of one person. The Syro-Malabar Church head Cardinal George Alencherry, in an official communiqué on Monday, denied receiving any sexual assault complaint against Mulakkal.