Six convicts sentenced to varying jail terms in a rape-and-dacoity case did not deserve any mercy, Kolkata Sessions Court judge said on Wednesday, pronouncing the quantum of punishment. They committed the heinous crime of vandalising a place of worship and committing sexual atrocities on an aged nun at the Jesus and Mary Convent at Ranaghat in Nadia district in 2015, the court said. Quoting from Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant, the judge said Jesus Christ, in the guise of a child, had told the giant that these were the wounds of love, when asked about nail- inflicted wounds on his palm and feet.
“But in this case, these are not the wounds of love and the convicts do not deserve mercy,” judge Kumkum Sinha said while sentencing the six convicts, including the one who raped the 72-year old nun.
(With agency input)