Elderly nun gang-raped in India: Police arrest 'prime suspect' in case
Milan Sarkar and Ahidul Islam Babu, were caught late last night at a Sealdah railway station in Calcutta
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Your support makes all the difference.Indian police have arrested the main suspect in the rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal.
Milan Sarkar was reportedly caught by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) along with another man, Ahidul Islam Babu, late last night at a Sealdah railway station in Calcutta.
“We arrested them on Thursday night from near Sealdah station. They are being presented before a court in Ranaghat," CID deputy inspector general Dilip Kumar Adak told The Times of India.
It remains unclear what role Sarkar, who along with the other man is believed to be a Bangladeshi citizen who fled home, reportedly played in the brutal rape of the 71-year-old nun in March of last year.
The unnamed nun was attacked after a group of eight identified men broke into the Convent of Jesus and Mary School, near Calcutta, in West Bengal.
The men appeared to have broken into the nunnery in order to rob it, but when the elderly nun attempted to block the group from entering the female dormitory, they allegedly gang-raped her so viciously she was left needing surgery.
Many protested after the event came to light, the latest ugly incidence of sexual violence in India.
Five men have so far been arrested in connection with the case, but three further men remain to be caught. Four men held over April have now been released, the BBC reports.
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