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Karat said that the nuns were arrested on the basis of 'manufactured' charges.
He said the arrest of the nuns was based on a false complaint filed by Bajrang Dal activists.
Opposition MPs visited the nuns in Durg jail, alleging poor treatment and raising concerns about the charges of religious conversion and human trafficking.
The latest incident has played an unexpected spoilsport, leaving the BJP's state unit with a lot of explaining to do.
Kerala Ministers P Rajeev and Roshy Augustine visited Preethi’s family in Kochi on Monday, conveying Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s assurance of full government support. The Congress, too, sent a delegation led by Opposition Leader V D Satheesan to express solidarity.
The FIR was filed under: Section 4 of the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Act, 1968, which deals with unlawful religious conversions, Section 143 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
The nuns, employed at Fatima Hospital in Agra, reached the station to board a train to Agra with three girls from Chhattisgarh.
The killing of Sudhakar comes a fortnight after CPI (Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju was killed in Bastar.
A Kerala pastor in Chhattisgarh faces threats to his life after resisting pressure from political and police authorities
A 'supporter' of police was killed and a police jawan was injured in the gunfight.
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