Nuns participate in silent march in Agartala on Friday to protest against the rape of an elderly nun at a convent in Ranaghat in West Bengal.

Nuns participate in silent march in Agartala on Friday to protest against the rape of an elderly nun at a convent in Ranaghat in West Bengal. Nuns participate in silent march in Agartala on Friday to protest against the rape of an elderly nun at a convent in Ranaghat in West Bengal.

The 72-year-old nun who was gangraped in West Bengal's Nadia district left the state by an early morning flight on Friday after she was released from hospital in the wee hours, even as no arrests were made six days after the incident.

Sources said that the Sister Superior of the Convent of Jesus and Mary High School at Gangnapur in Ranaghat took an Indigo flight for Delhi from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata. The flight left around 6 am.

The missionary teacher was discharged from the Ranaghat sub-divisional hospital, where she was admitted last Saturday.

Hospital sources said that she was discharged at 2:20 am on Friday and doctor Tapas Mullick accompanied the septuagenarian nun and the convent authorities to the airport. The odd-hour timing was intentional to avoid unwarranted media glare.

She was also given medicine for 10 days and advised to consult a gynaecologist and a psychiatrist after that.

It was learnt that Ranaghat sub-divisional officer (SDO) Rajarshi Mitra and the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) were present when the nun was discharged from the hospital.

No arrest has been made even six days after the incident though 15 persons have been detained in connection with it, police said.

The West Bengal government had on March 18 decided to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as the demand for justice grew louder with the culprits at large. But the investigation agency is yet to formally take charge of the case.

Earlier, the hospital authorities had issued a discharge certificate on Thursday saying that the patient was fit enough to be released. However, the convent authorities were yet to take the final call on the issue. Later, the school officials submitted a written application to the hospital saying they want to take the nun away.

The Christian convent teacher was allegedly gang-raped by a group of about 12 armed goons after she tried to prevent a robbery attempt by them.

- With PTI inputs

