6 jailed on allegations of preaching Christianity

Six people have been sent to jail for rioting and insult after a Hindu Jagran Manch member, Arvind Kumar Gupta, lodged a complaint that they were converting a Dalit to Christianity.

The six men had gone to meet their friend at Gangpur village in Kasganj. All of them are Dalits who had converted to Christianity.

Gupta, on the basis of which the FIR was filed, said: “When I reached there, I found these men distributing money and religious literature among villagers.”

olice later said that they found no evidence that the men were preachers.

Kasganj DSP, Deep Kumar Pant said: “For now, there is no evidence to suggest that the group of men was involved in religious conversion.”

The six men were, however, booked for other charges listed in Gupta’s complaint – rioting, assault, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace, criminal intimidation, mischief and deliberate and malicious act to outrage religious feelings – at the Sikandarpur Vaish police station in Kasganj.

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