Sister Concelia was arrested in July 2018 after allegations of child trafficking surfaced against 'Nirmal Hriday', a Missionaries of Charity shelter home for destitute women in Ranchi.
Mahto and his wife Sunita Kumari was earlier arrested in October 2014 on the charges of human trafficking. He has been out on bail since September 2016.
Christian news portal UCAN claimed that the Missionaries of Charity nun was being denied bail due to sectarian hatred and political pressure from the BJP government.
It is time that attention is drawn towards three disturbing trends in child development, especially relating to the most vulnerable children in our society - orphans, runaways, children of the indigent and children of marginalized sections of society.