Indian assailant priest claimed to ban immorality spirits
The women indicted a clergyman of mouth-watering them to his home where he betrothed to expostulate divided their immorality spirits by prayer. It was there that he raped them, military said.PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
NEW DELHI: Police have arrested a clergyman in eastern India indicted of raping dual women on a stratagem of pushing out immorality spirits, an central pronounced Wednesday.
Chandrama Raj, a clergyman with a Indian Mission Church in Bihar state, was arrested after one of a victims filed a censure in September.
“We conducted a rough exploration and have arrested a priest. He has been sent to legal custody,” Manu Maharaj, a comparison military superintendent of a state collateral Patna, told AFP.
The women indicted a clergyman of mouth-watering them to his home where he betrothed to expostulate divided their immorality spirits by prayer. It was there that he raped them, military said.
India has a grave record of passionate assaults, with 34,651 cases reported in 2015, according to supervision data.
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It strengthened laws opposite passionate assault after a deadly gang-rape of a Delhi tyro in 2012 caused tellurian outrage, though attacks are still widespread.
It is not a initial time a church in India has faced accusations of passionate abuse.
Two high-profile exposes by former Catholic nuns have in new years suggested a scale of passionate exploitation by priests and a superiority of same-sex family in Indian convents.
Last year an Indian clergyman was condemned to 40 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old lady in 2014.
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