Jhansi: After an uproar on the deboarding of nuns and two girls in Jhansi by GRP personnel on allegations of conversion led tpo Kerala CM writing to Union home minister Amit Shah and the latter assuring a fair investigation, SP GRP Lucknow, Saumitra Yadav reached Jhansi on Thursday for probing the incident.
Yadav told TOI, “The inquiry has started and the statements of the nuns, girls and RPF and GRP personnel are being recorded. I am contacting the women on phone.”
There is no need to contact the ABVP leader who had lodged the complaint since his written complaint will be treated as his statement, he added.
Last Friday, two nuns Livia Thomas and Hemlata were travelling with two girls Shweta and Bitrang to Rourkela in B2 compartment of Utkal Express from Delhi.
ABVP leader Ajay Shankar Tiwari travelling in the next compartment saw the nun and the girls and said he overheard them talking about conversion. Tiwari flashed the message to Jhansi GRP.
On reaching Jhansi, all the four passengers were deboarded and interrogated for around three hours at GRP station on the basis of written complaint of Tiwari.
The complaint was found baseless as it was established that all of them were Christians since birth and they were allowed to leave.
On Tuesday, Christian community from Kerala complained to the PMO and Kerala CM wrote a letter to Shah seeking action for harassment of the women.
Speaking at an election rally in Bengal, Shah assured a free and fair investigation of the incident.