Two nuns from Kerala—Preethy Mary and Vandana Francis—who were released from a Chhattisgarh prison after a court granted them bail, holding that the case of human trafficking and forced conversion against them was based on "mere suspicion", met with Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar in New Delhi.
The two nuns were accompanied by Kerala BJP state general secretary Anoop Antony.
This is the first time that the nuns are visiting Delhi after being released on bail.
Chandrasekhar said the nuns had come to express gratitude and that they had been given full support in taking the case forward.
"Sister Preethi Mary and Sister Vandana Francis visited me in Delhi today. Both expressed happiness over the interventions made by the BJP, including securing bail," he said in a tweet.
Currently, only bail has been granted to the nuns in the case. Legal matters related to quashing the FIR, among other things, will be pursued.
Earlier, Chandrasekhar had said the arrest of the two Kerala nuns happened due to procedural lapses and "misunderstanding". "It is a judicial process. Let it happen. I only want to say that don't politicise the issue. We are not seeing it as politics. We are only trying to help the people. This was a misunderstanding," he had said during the meeting with Archbishop of Trichur and the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) Andrews Thazhath.
Preethy Mary and Vandana Francis were arrested at Durg railway station on July 25 following a complaint by a local Bajrang Dal functionary who accused them of forcibly converting three girls from Narayanpur and trafficking them.