Bihar DGP convinced, orders probe into nun8217;s complaint

PATNA, SEPT 24: Bihar Director General of Police K A Jacob today said prima facie he was convinced that a nun of St. Joseph health centre...

PATNA, SEPT 24: Bihar Director General of Police K A Jacob today said prima facie he was convinced that a nun of St. Joseph health centre at Jalalpur was subjected to humiliation by two unidentified men who stripped her and forced her to drink their urine on September 20.

Jacob, who along with IGP Tirhut range Ashok Kumar Gupta, visited Chapra for an on-the-spot inquiry, told PTI that he was prima facie convinced of the complaint of the sister8217;.

He said the Chapra Police had been asked to a hold a thorough probe to bring the culprits to book at the earliest.

In an FIR lodged with police yesterday, the sister said she was abducted by two unidentified men when she boarded an auto-rickshaw to go to local post office from Gandhi chowk at 0900 hrs on September 20.

She alleged that the abductors took her to a secluded mango grove and dragged her out of the three-wheeler.

They later tied her hands and stripped her before forcing her to drink their urine, the sister alleged.

The incident evoked widespread condemnation with several Christian organisations and political leaders demanding immediate arrest of the perpetrators of the dastardly crime.

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United Christian Forum for Human Rights urged Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to take steps to stop anti-Christian violence in the country.

The incident has outraged not just the Christian community and the Church, but women and human rights groups,8217; UCFHR president Alan De Lastic said in a letter to Vajpayee.

The All India Christian People8217;s Forum appealed to all democratic and secular forces, political parties, social and cultural organisations to be united in their efforts to put an end to this religio-fascist8217; act.

The National Commission for Women said the heinousness of forcing the hapless woman to drink the urine of her abductors is the most deplorable crime against humanity8217;.

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In a statement in Chennai AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha said, It is an atrocious crime to humiliate people, particularly women and that too nuns engaged in the service of god, in the name of religion.8217;

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi appealed to Bihar Government to bring to book those responsible for the heinous crime.

Condemning the barbaric8217; act, PMK leader Dr S Ramadoss said such incidents should not be allowed to recur.