Kannauj,

9 Dec (HS): Three people accused of religious conversion were arrested and sent

to jail by the police. Prior to this, the police station and the Special

Operations Group (SOG) team interrogated the accused. However, the police

refrained from commenting on the network involved in the conversion. This is

not the first case of religious conversion in the district. The conspiracy of

Christian missionaries to lure villagers into religious conversions came to

light in Thathiya Karsah village when Bajrang Dal members entered a house and

created a ruckus. Women were sent forward to stop the Bajrang Dal workers,

while the people involved in the conversions locked themselves inside. Upon

receiving information, the police opened the room and arrested Pannalal,

Vidyasagar, and Umashankar Dohre. They recovered a Bible, a bag, two sealed

bottles, and books from their possession. Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar

stated that the three arrested accused are residents of Karsah village. An FIR

has been registered against them and they have been sent to jail.

The

accused claimed to have built the house in Karsah village where the religious

conversions were taking place, using a loan. To determine the truth, the police

took them to the Rural Bank branch in Ausar, where they gathered information.

The Thathiya police station and the SOG team interrogated the accused, but they

continued to mislead the police. The police are currently investigating this

conversion network linked to Christian missionaries.

They

were released after apologizing: Regarding the matter, Bajrang Dal leader Umesh

Vajpayee said that the game of religious conversion was going on in many

villages of Thathiya area. The organization had already informed the police

about this. After arresting the people who were converting people, the police

kept releasing them after making them apologize, due to which their network

kept expanding in the area. He said that earlier cases of forced religious

conversion had also come to light in Kakraghata, Karaundashah Nagar and

Bhakharauli villages of Thathiya area.

These

days, the religious conversion network is widespread in several villages in the

Thathiya, Saurikh, and Gursahaiganj areas of the district. Earlier in August,

police arrested some of the perpetrators of religious conversions from a house

in Gursahaiganj. Gowda Prasad, a resident of Andhra Pradesh, was jailed, and

the investigation stalled thereafter. Reaching the network of religious

conversions has become a challenge for the Kannauj police.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi