Bajrang Dal threatened to rape us: Tribal girls with Nuns allege assault, police complicity
Raipur: Tribal girls who were detained along with three Kerala nuns in Chhattisgarh on charges of forced religious conversion have made serious allegations against Bajrang Dal leader Jyoti Sharma and local police personnel.
Speaking to the media after the nuns were granted bail, the girls said that they were locked in a room, beaten on Jyoti Sharma’s orders, and threatened with rape by members of the Hindutva outfit, all in the presence of the police.
Tearfully recounting the ordeal, the girls maintained that there was no conversion attempt or human trafficking involved. They stated that they had willingly accompanied the nuns as employees (cooks), with the full consent of their parents. They demanded the immediate arrest of Jyoti Sharma, whom they accused of orchestrating the violence and abuse.
The girls also revealed that while a complaint was filed at Narayanpur Police Station on Saturday, it was not acted upon. They now intend to file an online complaint at the Durga Police Station naming Jyoti Sharma and others involved.
Meanwhile, the three nuns, Sister Vandana Francis, Sister Preeti, and Sukhman Mandavi, who were arrested last week, were granted bail on Saturday by an NIA court. Each had to furnish a bond of ₹50,000 and surrender their passports. The court has directed them not to leave the country.
Following their release, the nuns were taken to a monastery in Delhi under tight security.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
