<span style="color: #222222;">The National Commission For Women has written to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urging prompt action in ensuring the safety of two nuns who are witnesses in a rape case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal and were issued transfer orders by their congregation. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The NCW said in the letter that the complainants alleged that the transfer orders were aimed to split them and to sabotage the case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The letter said that the two nuns, who approached the women's panel, alleged the transfer orders issued last year were to pressurise and threaten them as they were prominent witnesses in the case. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The NCW in the letter said, the complainants also apprehend danger to their lives if transferred to distant regions. The letter said, as the Chief Minister is aware of the seriousness of the issue, the National Commission for Women urges his personal intervention into the matter to ensure the safety of the complainants and the fellow nuns. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Commission requested the Chief Minister to take prompt action to ensure prevention of sabotage of material evidence and witnesses in the pending case against rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, so that justice may prevail. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The nuns had been asked to report to the Missionaries of Jesus congregation's Jalandhar convent and meet its Superior General Sr Regina Kandamthottu on January 26. Earlier, four nuns were served notice by the superior general of the congregation, Regina Kadamthottu, urging them to take up their assigned responsibilities as befitting members of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The four nuns and the survivor nun had written to the Kerala chief minister, seeking his intervention to ensure that their transfer orders were not effected till the trial of the case was over. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Bishop Mulakkal, a senior member of the Roman Catholic clergy in India, was arrested last year following allegations by the nun that he repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted her at the Kuravilangad convent between 2014 and 2016, a charge denied by him.</span><br />''