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WB nun gang-rape case: second arrest
Kolkata, Mar 26(IBNS) A day after a man was arrested in Mumbai, the West Bengal police picked up another person near Kolkata on Friday in connection with the the gang-rape of an elderly nun, which triggering angry protests across the country.
The first suspect, identified as Sikander Sheikh alias Salim, was picked up in south Mumbai last night and has been flown to Kolkata.
Another man was arrested on Friday for allegedly harbouring the gang that attacked the nun at her convent.
The septuagenarian nun, the superior mother of a convent at Gangnapur in Ranaghat under Nadia district, was gang-raped after gang of miscreants broke into it and looted cash and valuables.
The incident evoked widespread indignation across the country and put Banerjee's government in a spot with religious heads of the Christian community openly criticising the administration.
People continued to demand immediate arrest of the culprits who remained at large even though the CID issued a cash reward of Rs one lakh for any information on the eight suspects, four of whom had been captured in CCTV footage.
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Police identified four of the six robbers through CCTV footage and had detained eight people for questioning.
Last week, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had decided to hand over the case to CBI as a probe by the CID continued to hit the wall several days after the incident.
The Chief Minister, who visited Gangnapur earlier, had faced the irk of the people, who barred the way of her vehicle and detained her for more than an hour. As the mob jeered at her for the alleged police inaction, an angry Chief Minister accused the CPI(M) and BJP of conspiring to harass her.
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