Party was in a tight spot after 2 Kerala nuns were arrested last month for alleged conversion, human trafficking in Chhattisgarh. The nuns were later released after they got bail.
Two nuns were taken off a train and detained in Jhansi on 19 March after Bajrang Dal activists complained that two women were allegedly being taken forcibly for religious conversion.
Sister Abhaya, 21, was found dead in a well on 27 March 1992. Kerala Police had initially ruled her death a suicide but an investigation by CBI established it was a homicide.
Body of Sister Abhaya was found in a well in Kottayam in March 1992. After several changes in investigating teams and many years later, CBI court Tuesday convicted 2 of murder.
At St Francis Mission Home in Kottayam, the survivor lives as a recluse, always in prayer. Sisters say we live in fear, don’t want the bishop to walk scot free.
Sister Lucy Kalappura was expelled by the Franciscan Clarist Congregation in August after she took part in a protest seeking the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of rape.
Sister Thresia was born on 26 April 1876 in Puthenchira, a small village in Thrissur. She founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1914.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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