Fugitive Catholic priest arrested in Tamil Nadu
Sunday March 18, 2012 11:28:53 AM,
IANS
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Chennai: Catholic
priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was arrested in Erode in
Tamil Nadu on charges of molesting a child in the US when he was
there during 2004, police said Saturday.
Acting on an alert by Interpol, Tamil Nadu police arrested Rev
Jeyapaul, 57, Friday evening and presented him in a court in Erode
which ordered that he be handed over to Interpol officials in New
Delhi.
The Tamil Nadu police had traced Rev Jeyapaul to a church in
Erode, around 335 km from here.
The priest, a fugitive from US law has been charged with molesting
a 14-year-old girl in the US in 2004 when he was at a pastoral
ministry at Roseau county of Crookston Diocese in Minnesota.
He returned to India in 2005 and maintained a low profile. In
2010, the Archbishop of Madras Mylapore A.M. Chinnappa had asked
Jeyapaul to return to the US to face the charges.
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