A court in Kolkata on Tuesday convicted a Bangladeshi man for raping an elderly nun at a school in West Bengal’s Ranaghat in 2015. Five other men were held guilty of conspiracy and robbery, NDTV reported.
Early on March 14, 2015, the men broke into a coed school in the town of Ranaghat, looted the church, desecrated the idols and attacked the 71-year-old nun who tried to stop them. On Tuesday, the court found 28-year-old Bangladeshi Nazrul Islam, who was arrested after the nun identified him from a line-up of suspects, guilty of rape.
The others – Milan Kumar Sarkar, Ohidul Islam, Mohd Selim Sheikh, Khaledar Rahman and Gopal Sarkar – were convicted of robbery.
Soon after the incident, the West Bengal government had ordered the Criminal Investigation Department to handle the case, The Indian Express reported. Investigators used CCTV footage to arrest four of them in Ludhiana, while the other two, including Nazrul Islam, were arrested at a railway station in Kolkata.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had tried to visit Ranaghat after the attack on the school, but angry villagers had blocked her convoy for an hour.
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