Mumbai,March 26: The CID on Thursday made the first arrest in West Bengal’s the nun gangrape case, picking up a man named Md Selim from Mumbai. According to reports, he has now been flown to Kolkata for questioning.
This is the first arrest in the case. The arrest comes after nearly two weeks of the incident where the nun was sexually assaulted after a gang of half a dozen robbers broke into a convent school near Ranaghat in West Bengal and ransacked the premises. The robbers had decamped with Rs 10-12 lakh in cash.
Police had earlier detained around 10 people for questioning but no arrests had been made over the attack on the nun, aged 71.