CUTTACK:Orissa- For the second day on Tuesday, defence counsels grilled crime branch DSP Dilip Kumar Mohanty, the investigating police officer in sensational Kandhamal nun rape case.  read more »

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The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) slams the complicity or the incapacity of state governments to stop attacks against religious minorities. Fr Cedric Prakash, a Jesuit, says, “Dalits are still children of ‘a lesser God’ in most parts of the country”.  read more »

CUTTACK: The third phase of recording statements and examination of witnesses in the sensational Kandhamal nun rape case scheduled to begin at a trial court here on Monday could not take place due to the ongoing lawyers' strike of the city.  read more »

Orissa Diary : Cuttack: The first phase hearing of Kandhamal Nun rape case finished. The next date for hearing is fixed to August 10 and 11. On the fifth day out of four witnesses, two were present and recorded their witness. In close door hearing at the Chamber of Cuttack District Judge Bira Kishore Mishra.
First the witness of the Cuttack Sadar SDJM Prasanta Kumar Das were recorded. On 5th January, the TI Parade conducted in Choudwar Jail by Cuttack Sadar SDJM Sri Das. Sri Das said Out of 9 accused father Chelen had failed to identify a single accuse. Concerned Nun could abale to identify two accused Kartik Pradhan and Santosh Patnaik.  read more »

BHUBANESWAR: A court in Orissa on Monday began the trial of an gangrape of a nun in the state's Kandhamal district during communal clashes in 2008.  read more »