Raped nun appears before police

Sify News Tuesday, 18 November , 2008, 21:53

Bhubaneswar: The nun who was allegedly raped during communal violence in Kandhamal in Orissa on Tuesday recorded her statement with Orissa police in Delhi. However, she is unlikely to attend the much-awaited test identification parade (TIP) of the accused persons scheduled to be held on Wednesday. ''Both the nun and Father Thomas Chelan appeared before the crime branch team in Delhi and recorded their statements in connection with the rape and other incidents this afternoon,'' Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop Raphael Cheenath said. The nun would not be able to reach Baliguda in Kandhamal from Delhi in such a short period of time to attend test identification parade. It required at least six hours by car to reach Baliguda from here and it was not practically possible for her to be present for the TIP, he said.  more

Sangh Parivar demand arrest of raped nun and ask her to marry the rapist

Raped Nun 


On Oct. 13, some 5,000 radical Hindu women demonstrated in K. Nuagaon demanding that “the victim marry her rapist in accordance with local tradition.”


In the rape of a nun shortly after the violence began, police have arrested Mitu Patnaik and also implicated Muna Ghadei and Saroj Ghadei. They were arrested at a mill in Kerala’s Palakkad district on Oct. 11.
 
Police had earlier arrested five men – Juria Pradhan, Kartik Pradhan, Biren Kumar Sahu and Tapas Kumar Patnaik on Oct. 3 and Santosh Pradhan on Oct. 7 for their alleged roles in the crime.
 
Orissa police sent Patnaik to Cuttack for DNA testing. The alleged rape of the 29-year-old woman took place at the building of a Non-Governmental Organization in Kanjamendi village in Kandhamal on Aug. 25.
 
The nun has refused to come forward to identify any of the suspects, though inspector general Ray told media they were hopeful of making their case.
 
“The nun must be very scared and disturbed,” he said. “If necessary, the trial of the case can be held in any other place in Orissa.” 
 
The nun has expressed her disbelief by saying that she would not like to “meet” the state police that remained a mute witness of her predicament.
 
“The nun wrote from a hospital, as she is yet to recover from the shock,” Archbishop Raphael Cheenath reportedly said. 
 
At the same time, Hindu radicals want to reintroduce a tribal law that would obligate a rape victim to marry the man who rapes her. 
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Sangh Parivar women demand arrest of nun who was raped

National,Religion, Tue, 21 Oct 2008IANS

Bhubaneswar, Oct 21 (IANS) Further vitiating the already surcharged atmosphere in Orissa's Kandhamal district, hundreds of women of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti - an outfit affiliated to the Sangh Parivar - Tuesday demonstrated here demanding the arrest of a nun who was raped during the violence that erupted in the area in August.

'The allegations made by the nun appear to be baseless because she is not coming forward to identify the people already arrested,' the organisation's zonal organising secretaty Suchitra Mohapatra told IANS.

 

 

'If she was raped she should come forward and identify the culprits. The state government has already announced to extend all security and help,' she added.   more