A Catholic nun in India has filed a petition before the Gujarat High Court for action against alleged derogatory remarks on nuns and the pope during an event organized by a rightwing Hindu group.
Sister Manjula Tuscano, a member of the Missionary Dominican Sisters of the Rosary, on April 17 confirmed to Matters India that she had filed the petition.
She, however, declined to divulge the details of the petition saying, “It is now before the court and therefore, I would not like to comment on it.”
A video circulated on social media shows an unidentified speaker at a function organized by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Kadi, a town some 45 km northwest of Ahmedabad, exhorting people to take Christians to task and to banish them from Gujarat, a western Indian state.
Sister Tuscano’s petition seeking registration of the first information report against the speaker is likely to come up next week.
The nun from Vadodara, a major city in the state, has stated in the petition signed by more than 100 that police authorities of Mehsana district have ignored a March 28 plea for criminal action against the speaker.
The petition filed through Utkarsh Dave, a lawyer, bemoans that the police have not acted in accordance with the law.
The meeting took place in March and the speaker referred to a convent in Irana village.
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