Kolkata/Mumbai, March 26: In a breakthrough, the CID in West Bengal and Mumbai arrested one each person Thursday — both Bangladeshi nationals — in connection with the gang-rape of a 71-year-old nun at a convent school in Nadia district that had caused a nation-wide outrage. The incident took place at Ranaghat in West Bengal 12 days ago.
The first arrest was made in Mumbai when Sikander Sheikh alias Salim was picked up in the early hours, while Gopal Sarkar was taken into custody from Habra in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, IG, CID (Operations) Dilip Adak told the media here. Salim, who was arrested from Nagpada area in south Mumbai by the West Bengal police in coordination with their Mumbai counterparts, confessed during interrogation that he had been involved in the crime. “We will get more details after further interrogation,” he said.
The IG CID said Sarkar, the other Bangladeshi national, who had been illegally staying in West Bengal since 2002, had given shelter to the culprits who committed the heinous crime. “We are interrogating him. We will come to know who were the other partners in the crime. We will produce him in the court tomorrow,” he said.
Meanwhile, Salim was produced before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Papia Das at Ranaghat and remanded to 14 days’ police custody. PTI
