The 29-year-old Catholic nun, who left Orissa after the alleged rape incident in Kandhamal four months ago, is likely to return on new year's day.
BHUBANESWAR: The 29-year-old Catholic nun, who left Orissa after the alleged rape incident in Kandhamal four months ago, is likely to arrive here on the new year's
day for the test identification parade, sources said on Tuesday.
"She will come to attend the test identification parade (TIP) at a jail in Cuttack as per the court directive," said a senior member of the Archbishiop's house here.
Though she is yet to recover from the trauma, the nun will attend the TIP in Cuttack on January 3 according to the schedule and expedite the investigation, sources said. According to the sources, the nun would come to assist the probe conducted by the crime branch (CB) of Orissa police after the court allowed the TIP outside the riot-hit Kandhamal district.
The nun in her earlier petition to the Orissa High Court had sought shifting of the venue of the TIP to Delhi or any place other than Kandhamal. The HC granted permission to
conduct the TIP in Cuttack on January 3, 2009.
The presence of the nun was significant as she in the FIR filed at Baliguda police station in Kandhamal, mentioned that one person in the mob raped her at K Nuagaon on August 25.
"The FIR states that while she does not know the name of the person, she can still identify him if he is produced before her," chief minister Naveen Patnaik had stated in the Orissa assembly while giving a statement on Kandhamal situation on December 12.
The nun, who had been undergoing trauma treatment in Delhi ever since she left Orissa after the incident, could not be brought to the state despite several attempts by the crime branch officials in the past.
On getting information about the whereabouts of the nun, an inspector general of police rank officer along with two other lady officers of the CB proceeded to Delhi on october 6 and made efforts to reach out to her.
The nun has been examined in New Delhi and her statement recorded, a senior Home department official said adding her blood sample was colected by a professor of the
AIIMS, New Delhi and sent to Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Kolkata for DNA test.
Meanwhile, the CB had arrested 10 persons in connection with the alleged rape case and put behind bars since October.
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