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Witnesses for Nun's Rape Case Threatened, Refuse to Testify
 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that five prosecution witnesses gave compromised testimony in the case of the nun who was raped during the August pogrom against Christians in Orissa's Kandhamal district because they had been threatened with "dire consequences." The witnesses testified on April 22 in a special court.
 
Two witnesses, Prahalad Pradhan and his wife Chanchala, in whose house Sister Meena took shelter after the rape, did not confirm the incident. Prahalad said that the two were dragged from their house by a mob, but in her deposition, Chanchala only admitted that the nun and a priest took shelter in their house and said she did not know anything else.
 
Three other witnesses, Debendra Naik, Dhaneswar Mallick and Surendra Digal, stated that they had no knowledge of the incident.

Sr. Meen local court and that she would not receive a fair trial.

The executive magistrate, Mr. Saroj Kumar Mishra, told the court, "As soon as I was informed about the nun and priest Thomas Chelan's presence at K Nuagaon police outpost, I instructed officials to shift them to the Baliguda police station where the nun lodged an FIR alleging that she was raped."

The rape of the 29-year-old nun has created an uproar across the country. Lawyers for Sr. Meena have reported that the next hearing for the case is scheduled for May 11

 

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