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Lok Sabha debates witnesses uproar over nun gangrape

| | Mar 17, 2015, at 06:57 pm
New Delhi, Mar 17 (IBNS): The Lok Sabha witnessed an uproar over the gangrape of a nun in West Bengal with Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu urging politicians not to politicise the matter.

"Playing blame games over issues like the one in Hisar or in West Bengal is not the solution to the problem... These are the incidents which should be condemned. We cannot blame the government. Moreover, it is not the Centre's responsibility to interfere in law and order matters of a state," Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said in the house.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has raised the issue of gangrape of the nun in the House.

He said: "Three days ago this heinous crime was committed but none has been arrested so far. It shows the callousness of the state government."

TMC MP Saugata Roy said: "I join everybody in condemning the heinous attack on a nun in Ranaghat in West Bengal."

He said: "Unlike most other Chief Ministers in the country she herself went to meet the Nun yesterday at Ranaghat and met the Convent members.  She has assured them of all protection but may I say Ma’am this type of incidents are happening because of the communal atmosphere in the country created by the ruling party."

Early Saturday. suspected robbers barged in at the missionary-run school Nadia's Ranaghat, located over 75km from Kolkata, took away Rs. 12 lakh and other valuables and gangraped the 72-year-old Mother Superior of the convent.

Superintendent of Police Arnab Ghosh said with the detention of two persons on Monday, the number of those held in connection with the incident rose to 10.

In another incident in Haryana, an under-construction church was vandalized in Kaimri village.

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