HUBBALLI:  The Karnataka Police have filed a case against 15 people in connection with attempts at coercive religious conversion in the state's Hubballi city, police said on Wednesday.

Police said that the incident was reported after a couple's argument. The husband said that his wife is refusing to live with him and is pressuring him to become a Christian.

He said that he had brought the issue to the attention of local leaders when he could take no more of the wife's pressure. The Shikkaligaara community protested in front of the police station and requested that conversion offers be halted.

The complaint said that Christian missionaries are attempting to convert the entire population while focusing on the Shikkaligaara community of Hindus.

It is said that the missionaries are using the assistance of the neighborhood's rowdy sheeter Madan Bugudi to persuade people to convert to Christianity from Hinduism.

In connection with forced religious conversions, the police have reported Madan Bugudi and 14 other people and have begun an inquiry.

Recently, in another report, it reads that an attempt to build the tallest statue of Jesus in the world in Kapalabetta in Kanakapura taluk were made. The Hindu activists then complained that state Congress President D K Shivakumar was supporting the building of the tallest statue of Jesus Christ to impress the Ex-AICC President Sonia Gandhi in his constituency.

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