Goa, July 31 -- A sessions court in Chhattisgarh's Durg district on Wednesday disposed of the bail petitions of two Kerala nuns-Preeti Mary and Vandana Francis-who were arrested in a controversial case involving alleged religious conversion and human trafficking. The court stated that the matter falls under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act and should be transferred to an NIA court in Bilaspur.

Ravi Shankar Singh, secretary of the Durg Advocates Association, explained that the sessions judge was unavailable, so an additional district judge heard the case. "The judge ruled that he lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter as it falls under the NIA Act," Singh said, adding that the court gave the police 15 days to initiate the proce...