Kolkata: Three nuns who are witnesses in the Ranaghat nun rape case of March 2015 have moved Calcutta high court seeking that the trial be moved out of the local court. Sources say that the nuns are scared of being identified when they arrive in the court while testifying.
While hearing the case Justice Sudip Ahluwalia, set the next hearing date to two weeks from then. Justice Sudip Ahluwalia, while hearing the plea, has set the next hearing date two weeks from now. Till then, all trial processes in the local court will remain suspended, he has ordered. All the accused in the case are hardened Bangladeshi criminals who frequently cross over to India to commit dacoities. and slip back across the border
After two and half months of trial the case has reached a stage where the nuns will have to appear in the court. The trial has been on for two and a half months and has reached a stage where the nuns will have to appear in court. Sources in CID said that the state agency does not have a problem with shifting of court but is worried about the trial getting delayed. that it may delay the trialIncidentally, CID had probed another high profile case - the Kamduni gangrape-murder - that was shifted from a local court to Kolkata. The difference being, in the Kamduni case it was the accused (now convicts) who had sought the transfer.