The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has targeted another Christian institution in Madhya Pradesh.
NCPCR Chairman Priyank Kanoongo, a Hindu nationalist from this state, is using his powers of investigation against educational establishments run by Christian missionaries, relying on false complaints of conversions as a pretext to go after minority schools, sources told AsiaNews.
The latest case was reported on Saturday in the city of Damoh where police registered a case against a well-known evangelical preacher, Ajay Lall, after the NCPCR claimed to have found irregularities in the local orphanages he runs.
Additional District Judge Damoh charged nine people under several sections of the Indian Penal Code. State authorities also cancelled the registration of an orphanage run by Adharshila Sansthan, the foundation created by Ajay Lall to promote tribal women.
On X (formerly Twitter), Priyank Kanoongo accuses Ajay Lal and his associates of “human trafficking, religious conversions of children, tribal children made pastors, orphan children adopted only by Christian families”.
This comes after Bishop Gerald Almeida and Sister Liji were indicted under the state’s anti-conversion law in the wake of a raid at Asha Kiran, a diocesan-run orphanage. In June Madhya Pradesh High Court granted them anticipatory bail.
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