The rape case was registered against Pascal based on a complaint filed by his wife Suja Jones Mazurier, a Keralite, and he was arrested on June 19, 2012.

Special Public Prosecutor B T Venkatesh contended that Pascal's involvement could be proved in the course of the trial.

Venkatesh told reporters that he would also press for charging him under IPC section 377 (unnatural offences) as there was sufficient evidence to show that the child was also sodomised.

Pascal's counsel has claimed his client was “innocent” as the DNA test had shown to be negative but Venkatesh has countered it saying that the result itself was under question.

The Third Additional Principal Family Court had granted visitation right to his mother, Jacqueline Maille, permitting her to meet his three children at Bangalore Mediation Centre on July 24 last year.