Nun gangrape case: Mother Superior tried to save 2 others from rapists

Kolkata/Ranaghat: No arrests have been made even five days after the gangrape of the 71-year-old Mother Superior at a convent school here even as the traumatised woman’s plea to stay on for some more time in hospital has been accepted.

Sources said that when the intruders were molesting two other nuns, the victim intervened and said they should stop as the sisters were not well. They then suggested that she should come along with them, and forcibly tried to lift her, but the nun said she would walk. Sources said she was taken to a separate room. She was found there at 4 am, lying in a pool of blood. Sources added that some of the intruders tried to forcibly take rings and chains from the nuns, who pleaded that they should leave those items alone as “they belong to God”.

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Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, recounting his meeting with the nun, said, “She said she has forgiven but added that what happened to her should not happen to anyone else. As this period of Lent is very special for Christians, she said that the way she saw it, her suffering helped her identify with the suffering of Christ at this time, and she hoped it would yield in bringing blessings to everyone.”

State president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Mohd Nooruddin claimed “anti-minority speeches by BJP leaders” were to blame for such incidents. Left Front chairman Biman Bose and leader of the opposition Surya Kanta Mishra, too, condemned the attack.