Ranaghat: A top Catholic functionary today arrived here to express solidarity with the Sister Superior of a convent school, who was allegedly gang raped on Saturday.

We request the people in authority to bring justice at the earliest

- Cardinal Baselios Cleemis

Soon after his arrival here, President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Baselios Cardinal Cleemis went to the convent to meet the other nuns to give them moral support. Meanwhile, no arrests have been made in connection with the incident. Fifteen persons have so far been detained, Nadia district superintendent of police Arnab Ghosh said.

A police team has also headed out of Bengal in connection with the investigation. The 71-year-old nun was allegedly gangraped by dacoits at Gangnapur in the early hours on Saturday after which a CID probe was ordered into the incident.

-PTI