Staff of Missionaries of Charity arrested

RANCHI: Jharhand police on Thursday arrested sister Koshleniea, in-charge of Nirmal Hriday, a Missionaries of Charity run shelter home, in Ranchi saying she was involved in selling a newly born boy to a couple, the claim the NGO said was “impossible” to believe.

“Sister Koshleniea was interrogated along with one Sister Mary, wherein the former has confessed that she was a party to the conspiracy for selling the oneand-half-month-old boy,” said Kotwali PS officer in-charge Shyamanand Mandal.

Missionaries of Charity spokesperson in Kolkata, Sunita Kumar, said, “This is impossible and quite unbelievable because nothing like this has ever happened in any institution run by the Missionaries of Charity in any part of the world. Sister Prema is not here. But we talked about it and even she finds this impossible.” Sister Mary Prema Pierick is the present Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity founded by Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta.

Mandal said Sr Koshleniea was produced before the Ranchi chief judicial magistrate court on Thursday which remanded her for 14 day’s judicial custody.

On Wednesday, the police had arrested Anima Induwar, the shelter home sweeper, claiming that she confession that the boy was sold at ~1.20 lakh to a couple based in Obra in UP. A case has been registered with women’s police station, Kotwali on the instruction of Child Welfare Committee chairperson Rupa Verma, who alleged a boy was born to an unwed minor was sold to the Obra couple in May.