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Ranaghat nun rape case:One more accused arrested

| | Apr 24, 2015, at 10:31 pm
Kolkata, Apr 24 (IBNS): A team of West Bengal CID officers has arrested a Bangladeshi national from Bongoan railway station in connection with the gang-rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal last month which had triggered angry protests across the nation.

He has been identified as Khaleder Rahaman Mintu , nicknamed Faruq.

“During an interrogation he confessed his guilt and stated that he was involved in the crime. He further disclosed that he had entered into Indian mainland clandestinely today through Indo-Bangladesh border,” read an official media release.

Khaleder is a resident of Madhyapara,PO. Noapara.PS. Abhaynagar, dist. Jessore, Bangaldesh, said CID,DIG(operation) Dilp Adak.

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 West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's government in a spot with religious heads of the Christian community openly criticising the administration.

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