CPI MP and Rajya Sabha leader P Sandosh Kumar has urged Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai to register an FIR against Bajrang Dal activists accused of threatening three tribal girls who were travelling with two nuns recently jailed on charges of religious conversion in Durg, Chhattisgarh.
Communist Party of India (CPI) MP P Sandosh Kumar has termed the arrest of two Kerala nuns in Chhattisgarh as shocking and expressed his hope that they will get justice.
A special NIA court in Bilaspur on Saturday granted conditional bail to two Catholic nuns and a tribal youth arrested in a high-profile case of alleged religious conversion and human trafficking.
Kerala BJP chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said that the two Keralite nuns arrested in Chhattisgarh would soon be released on bail, adding that the arrests were the result of a misunderstanding.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Friday urged Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai to intervene and withdraw what he described as “shocking and unfounded” charges against two Catholic nuns from Kerala, arrested last week over allegations of forced religious conversion.
"The arrest of nuns is a grave injustice. They have not done anything against the law," Tharoor told reporters in the national capital.
Sister Mariam Thresia was born on April 26, 1876 in Kerala's Thrissur district.
Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a Kerala nun was on Friday arrested in Kochi after three consecutive days of interrogation by the state police, sources said.
Besides agreeing to hear the bail plea of the bishop accused of raping a nun, the court on Tuesday also asked the Kerala government to file an affidavit.
In a statement released on Friday, Jalandhar’s Missionaries of Jesus continued its campaign against the nun who accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of rape defending its earlier decision of declaring the clergyman innocent.
