Two arrested in Bengal nun gang rape case

 

Nuns participate in a candlelight vigil to condemn the gang-rape of a nun in Ranaghat of West Bengal, in Agartala on March 20, 2015.
Nuns participate in a candlelight vigil to condemn the gang-rape of a nun in Ranaghat of West Bengal, in Agartala on March 20, 2015.

The West Bengal Police arrested two people in connection with the March 14 Ranaghat nun gang rape case, police said.

A team of CID (Criminal Investigation Department) of the state police nabbed a Bangladeshi Mohammed Salim Sheikh from Mumbai in the morning with the help of the Mumbai crime branch, police said.

CID Deputy Inspector General (operations) Dilip Kumar Adak told reporters here that another person Gopal Sarkar has been arrested from Habra in North 24 Parganas district for harbouring the gang of dacoits who committed the crime inside a convent.

The nun was brutalised by the dacoits inside the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ranaghat, some 80 km from Kolkata.