INDIA
Deccan Herald
A Christian priest wanted by Interpol for his alleged involvement in a child abuse case registered in the US has been arrested near here, police said today.
Rev Jeyapaul alias Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, 57, served as a priest in a church in Udhagamandalam before 2004 when he left for a church in Thief River Falls and then to Greenbush in Minnesota in the United States where he was entrusted to take care of children, police sources said.
In 2004, he was charged with allegedly molesting a 14-year old girl at his church under the diocese of Crookston, Minnesota.
Though a suit in this regard was registered in the Roseau County Court in US, Jeyapaul returned to India in 2005.
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