Allurements given to poor & Dalits? Hospital, NGO, bishop get notices over Fatehpur conversions ( The Print )

Broadwell hospital was earlier served notice as well to join investigation and share documents. Its management claims help extended to beneficiaries comes under charitable work.

Policemen paste notice on wall of Evangelical Church of India, Fatehpur | Special Arrangement

Lucknow: The probe into the alleged religious conversions of Dalits and the poor in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district has taken a new turn with the police issuing notices to a British-era missionary hospital, an NGO and the Evangelical Church of India.

The notices were issued to the chairman and a clerk of the Broadwell Christian Hospital which has been functioning since 1909, staff of the NGO World Vision International (WVI)’s Fatehpur office and the bishop of Evangelical Church of India, Prayagraj.

This is the second notice to the Broadwell hospital as a notice was issued in December to its officials under Section 91 of CrPC (summons to produce documents or other things) to join the investigation and share documents.

Last week, the police took similar action against the chancellor, the vice-chancellor and an administration official of the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS) —  a prominent Christian institution in Prayagraj — and senior pastor Paul Sigamony of Allahabad Bible Seminary under which the Evangelical Church of India, Fatehpur functions.

This story was originally published in theprint.in . Read the full story here

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