Catholic Bishop's Conference of India president Cardinal Baselios Cleemis on Wednesday said the culprits behind the gang rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal's Nadia district must be brought to justice.
A top Catholic functionary today urged the state authorities to ensure that justice was done in the alleged gangrape of a nun at Ranaghat in Nadia district on Saturday even as no arrest could be made in the case even after four days.
President of Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) Baselios Cardinal Cleemis, who arrived here to express solidarity with Sister Superior of a convent school who was allegedly gangraped, said, "CBCI would like to request the authorities to ensure that justice is done".
"Justice should be made visible and such act should not continue. We are here to see personally what has happened", he said.
Cardinal Cleemis, who will meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee later in the day, said, "I will request her to act fast. Such inhuman acts should be stopped". Soon after his arrival here, Cardinal Cleemis went to the convent to meet the other nuns to give them moral support and visited the septuagenarian nun at the hospital. He offered prayers at the Ranghat sub-divisional hospital room where the nun is being treated.
Hospital superintendent A K Mondol said that the hospital authorities were "in a position to release her, but the final decision has to be taken by patient party, the police and the district administration. " No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
Fifteen persons have so far been detained, Nadia district superintendent of police Arnab Ghosh said. A police team has been sent outside the state in connection with the investigation.
The CCTV footage at the convent had shown four persons, who were allegedly involved in the crime. The SP had announced a reward of Rs one lakh to any individual providing information leading to the arrest of the accused.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had visited the nun on Monday.
The 71-year-old nun was allegedly gangraped by dacoits at Gangnapur in the early hours on Saturday after which a CID probe was ordered into the incident.
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