Raipur: Four persons, including a Christian priest, have been arrested in a village in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Jashpur district for allegedly attempting to convert. They have been identified as Pastor Arun Kujur and Pastor Basant Lakda, Pastor Salmon Tigga and Dino Kujur, police said. An official said he was arrested from Pasia village in the Bagicha police station area on Monday on the basis of complaints from locals. All of them have been caught in the guise of Changai Sabha for allegedly attempting to convert.
According to the same complaint, the four convicts organized a 'Changai Sabha' at the house of a villager Dilip Nagvanshi on Sunday and Monday where they allegedly tried to convert tribals into Christianity. Officials said the police have taken this action on the complaint of rural Hariram Nagvanshi. The officer said that Nagvanshi had complained to the police that on the 20th of this month, the Priest of the Christian community and Dilip Nagvanshi's house in Pastor village was preaching Christianity by organizing a Changai Sabha and when other villagers reached Dileep's house, about 50 people including women and children were gathered there. Pastors and pastors were asking the attendees to leave Sanatan dharma and convert to Christianity.
The officer said that the four have been booked under Section 295A of the IPC (deliberate and malicious act, intent to insult the religious sentiments of any section of its religion or religious sentiments) and 34 (general intent) of the IPC and Section 4 of the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Act.
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