Jhansi: A court in Jhansi has granted bail to three people arrested in connection with the harassment of nuns traveling on a train.
The magistrate’s court in Jhansi, a town in Uttar Pradesh state, released the three from the jail on April 7 evening.
Magistrate Salil Patel said: “All the three were arrested under section 151 CrPC for the breach of peace. They have been released on bail and I have given next date on April 22 for further trial.”
They had allegedly heckled and harassed two Catholic nuns and their two students on March 19 as they were travelling on Utkal Express train to Rourkela in Orissa from Delhi.
The three — Ajay Shankar Tiwari, an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad member, Anchal Arjaria, president of Rashtra Bhakt Sangathan and Purgesh Amaria, secretary of the Hindu Jagran Manch — were arrested by railway police on April 2.
The railway police forced the nuns and their students to get down from the train at Jhansi on a complaint filed by Tiwari accusing the Christians of indulging in religious conversion, an allegation that was proved false later.
The incident snowballed into a controversy after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a written complaint to Home Minister Amit Shah, who assured him of justice.
Kerala was among five states that went to polls on April 6 to elect their legislative assembly.
An investigation was initiated by Superintendent of Police GRP Lucknow, Saumitra Yadav, who holds additional charge of Jhansi.
Based on his report, all the three were arrested as a preventive measure.
They were granted bail a day after the polling in Kerala was over.
Source:.canindia.com /IANS
The vigilante groups are anti law and order. Who allowed them to take the law into their own hands? Even if, I say ‘even if’, there is conversion that can be called fraudulant, who are the legal authorities to deal with them. Not any hooligan on the road or on a train, but the proper authorities. These groups should be booked under law-and-order and national security laws.
Unfortunately central government and state governments are more interested in suppressing human rights than keep law and order. This is the tragedy of our country today. God (of all religions) alone knows when we are going to be free of this oppression.