Kolkata: The 71-year-old nun who was raped by a gang of bandits in West Bengal's Nadia district continues to be physically and mentally stable, an attending doctor said on Tuesday.

"Her condition, both physically and mentally, is stable now. She is responding to treatment," Payal Mullick Laha, additional superintendent of the Ranaghat sub-divisional hospital, said. Confirming that the sister superior of the Convent of Jesus and Mary High School in Ranaghat was sexually assaulted, Laha said reports of medical examination conducted to ascertain rape were still awaited.