India, July 30 -- A court in Chhattisgarh's Durg district on Wednesday disposed of the bail petitions of two Kerala nuns arrested in an alleged conversion and human trafficking case.

Ravi Shankar Singh, secretary of the Durg Advocates Association, said the bail application was filed with the sessions judge on Tuesday. "Today, the judge was on leave, so the additional district judge heard the bail application. In one line, the judge said that he does not have the authority to hear the bail application because the matter comes under the NIA Act and the NIA court is in Bilaspur."

Singh said when the defence lawyers pointed out that the nuns were in a Durg jail, the judge simply said that he was disposing of the application. "The court told...