New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, July 31 (NationPress) Just hours after Union Minister of State for Fisheries George Kurian announced a promising development, a group of Kerala MPs stated that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has guaranteed bail for the two nuns currently imprisoned in Chhattisgarh.

In a media briefing in Delhi post-meeting, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) Lok Sabha MP N.K. Premachandran revealed that Home Minister Shah assured that all necessary measures would be taken to ensure the nuns receive bail either today or tomorrow.

“To facilitate this, the Chhattisgarh government is set to request the NIA court to withdraw the case, as Home Minister Shah indicated that there needs to be a clearance for a case to be registered in an NIA court, which has not been addressed,” Premachandran elaborated.

“Thus, there is a 99 percent likelihood that the nuns will be freed today. If not, it will certainly happen tomorrow. A new bail application will be submitted in the Sessions court, which previously declined to hear it, citing lack of jurisdiction,” the RSP Lok Sabha MP added, noting his recent visit to the nuns in custody.

Notably, Union Minister Kurian criticized the Congress party, asserting that only the BJP is actively working towards resolving the situation surrounding the arrest of the two nuns in Chhattisgarh, while the Congress appears to be stalling their release for unspecified reasons.

Addressing the media, Union Minister Kurian stated: “It’s essential to recognize that it was Kerala BJP President Rajeev Chandrasekhar and State BJP General Secretary Anoop Antony who initiated the efforts, and these are ongoing. We will soon have positive news to share.”

He also mentioned that there was some misunderstanding regarding who filed the bail application in the Sessions court.

“The police presented the three young women (who were with the nuns) for the bail hearing on Monday, but unexpectedly, the application was not submitted in court,” Union Minister Kurian explained.

He noted that the Chhattisgarh court dismissed the nuns' plea on jurisdictional grounds.

Interestingly, the Chhattisgarh Sessions Court stated that the bail requests were “out of their jurisdiction.”

“We question why the Congress MPs from Chhattisgarh are not joining their protesting counterparts in Delhi,” Union Minister Kurian remarked, while emphasizing that he is limited in what he can share due to the ongoing legal proceedings.

The two nuns, Sister Preeti Mary and Sister Vandana Francis, are affiliated with the Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate, a congregation under the Syro-Malabar Church located in Alappuzha district. They have been serving at a hospital in Agra.

On July 26, while escorting three women from Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh to Agra for jobs as kitchen helpers in a convent, the nuns and a man named Sukhman Mandavi were intercepted at a Chhattisgarh railway station by activists from Bajrang Dal.

Following a complaint, the nuns were subsequently detained by police on allegations of human trafficking and forced conversions.

They were later brought before a local court and placed into judicial custody.