Days after the Catholic laity group Association of Concerned Catholics (AOCC) raised concerns over Bishop KA Williams’ DNA test being conducted in a Catholic hospital, Archbishop Leo Cornelio, who is heading the three-member inquiry commission constituted by the Vatican to look into charges of misappropriation of church funds and fathering children against Williams, the Bishop of Mysuru, wrote to the secretary of AOCC asking him to be “kindly sensible and refrain from pulling the commission into the AOCC dragnet.”

Earlier in the week, Melwyn Fernandes, secretary of the AOCC, had written to the Papal Nuncio of India and Nepal that he had learnt “from sources” that Bishop Williams’ DNA test was going to be conducted by the three-member committee at St. John’s hospital in Bangalore. The AOCC strongly objected to it being done in a Catholic hospital because Bishop Williams had “influential clergymen” as friends, who could manipulate the test results.