Raipur, Aug. 2 -- Communist Party of India (CPI) MP P Sandosh Kumar has termed the arrest of two Kerala nuns in Chhattisgarh as shocking and expressed his hope that they will get justice.

"These nuns were falsely implicated in a case...This is a very strange and shocking case...We are hopeful that justice will be ensured to them," Kumar told ANI.

ON Friday, a special NIA court in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district took up the bail application of three persons, including the two nuns, in the case. The court reserved its order for today. The defence counsel argued that there was no material evidence to suggest that the accused indulged in forcible religious conversion or human trafficking.

Kumar and some of the MPs belonging to the Left De...