Allahabad:About half-a-dozen nuns were physically assaulted and a few others also received injuries when a gang of anti-socials, posing as dacoits, ransacked St. Mary’s Convent at Ghoorpur, near here, on March 8 night.
It is the second such incident in Uttar Pradesh where antisocials, backed by vested interests, entered the precincts of an educational institution manned by Christian minority and “raped” nuns besides injuring others.
It was half past midnight when the anti-socials entered the premises of the St. Mary’s Convent breaking open the main iron gates. They then entered the residential quarters of the nuns and let loose a reign of terror there. The nuns started running helter skelter but could not escape the clutches of the anti-socials.
The anti-socials, after molesting the nuns decamped with cash and other valuables worth thousands of rupees.
The police till now could not nab a single criminal while the authorities of the Ghoorpur Convent closed the institution indefinitely till the culprits are arrested and punished.
Meanwhile, all Catholic institutions of Allahabad remained closed as a mark of protest against the civil and police administrations’ failure to protect the women teachers, particularly the nuns, from criminals: (National Herald, March 10.)
