NEW DELHI — With
no arrests yet in the rape of a nun and the robbery of a convent
school last week in the Indian state of West Bengal, the state’s leader on
Wednesday delegated the case to the federal investigating agency.
Mamata Banerjee,
the state’s chief minister, said on Twitter on Wednesday that the robbers,
whose faces were captured on closed-circuit camera footage, might have escaped
across the Indian border, presumably to nearby Bangladesh. Ms. Banerjee faced
angry protests when she visited Ranaghat, the city where the rape and robbery
took place.
The nun, who is
in her 70s, was raped by one member of a group of robbers who ransacked the
Convent of Jesus and Mary on Saturday.
Cardinal
Baselios Cleemis Catholicos, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference
of India, met with the nun on Wednesday.
“The sisters
have forgiven but the justice is to be made visible,” he said, adding that the
Catholic Church’s activities in India “will continue with more fervor and
commitment, and we are not stopped by such events and such violations.”
Christians, who
make up about 2 percent of India’s population, have expressed anxiety over
recent violence directed toward them, including a number of attacks by vandals
on churches in New Delhi.
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