INDIA
New Kerala
[India News]: Dumka (Jharkhand), Dec 14 : A Jharkhand court has sentenced a Catholic priest who was paraded naked by miscreants naked seven years ago to jail for molesting a tribal boy.
Chief Judicial Magistrate G.N. Pandey of Dumka district Monday ordered three years rigorous imprisonment for Father Christudas, 48, a priest for 19 years.
Christudas, vice principal of St. Joseph's School at Guhiyajori in the district, was stripped and paraded naked in front of government officials Sep 2, 1997 after being accused of committing sodomy with a 14-year-old schoolboy.
Christudas said he would appeal the order.