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Cuttack (Orissa), May 9- Two more persons were granted bail today by Orissa High Court in the crime branch police investigation into the sensational Kandhamal nun rape case of 2008.
Pandit Kumar Bismajhi and Jatia Sahu arrested by crime branch sleuths on two separate days in June 2010 for alleged involvement in the case were granted bail by Justice C R Dash.
For Sajan K George, president of the Council of India Christians (GCIC), “The state of Orissa is also responsible for the anti-Christian attacks in surrounding states.”

He made the statement after the GCIC organised a sit-in and hunger strike in Bhubaneshwar to put pressure on the central government to investigate radical Hindu violence (see “2008 Orissa massacres: Christians fast for justice,” in AsiaNews, 6 May 2011).http://www.asianews.it/news-en/2008-Orissa-massacres:-Christians-fast-for-justice-21486.html  read more »

Police constable Sanjit Kumar Naik admits to lying

The Catholic nun, who was raped in Orissa's Kandhamal district after a mob attacked the church at Baliguda following the killing of VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati on August 23 ,  read more »