India, Aug. 17 -- The additional sessions court of Pune has discharged 79-year-old Bishop Emeritus Thomas Dabre of the Pune Diocese, who is a co-accused in a 2018 case pertaining to the sexual abuse of a minor.

A First Information Report (FIR) was registered at the Hadapsar police station in 2018 and later transferred to Kondhwa police station, stating that Father Vincent Pereira allegedly sexually abused a 15-year-old boy while two other prominent members of the church - Bishop Dabre and Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Bombay - allegedly did not act against the main suspect despite complaints from the survivor's family members.

Dabre moved a discharge application under Section 227 (discharge of an accused person in a session...