BBC News
Indian police have charged eight men accused of raping an elderly nun in the state of West Bengal.
Six of the men, all Bangladeshi nationals, are in custody and another two suspects were charged in absentia.
Last week, investigators said they had arrested the man who they believe raped the 74-year-old nun.
The attack caused outrage in India where sexual violence has been under greater scrutiny since a brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in 2012.
The charges against the men included robbery with attempt to cause death or grievous harm, criminal conspiracy and gang rape, the additional public prosecutor at the court in the town of Ranaghat near Kolkata (Calcutta), Pradip Kumar Pramanik, told the AFP news agency.
Mr Pramanik added that further tests were needed to determine whether one or more people had raped the nun.
In May, the police said they had arrested Milon Sarkar and described him as the leader of the gang which attacked the convent. They said it was not clear what role the man had played in the case.
During the attack in Ranaghat on 14 March, money was stolen from the convent school and the building ransacked, before the nun was raped in the convent itself.
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