Two Christians were arrested on Wednesday for alleged attempting forced religious conversions at an event in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district.
Videos on social media showed members of a Hindutva group disrupting a Christian event in the Un village of the district.
The two men, Mehram Malloi and Satyam Nagar, had organised the event to allegedly convert those attending the event to Christianity, a police official told Scroll. They have been booked under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2021, the official said.
“Mehram Malloi, an Adivasi who had converted to Christianity 15 years ago, had organised an event for religious conversion,” the official said. “Three to four men objected that they would not convert.”
The police said that those who protested the alleged conversion attempt approached the Sakal Hindu Samaj, a collective of several Hindutva outfits. The members of the organisation then staged a protest, the police said.
Madhya Pradesh is among the nine states, several of them ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, that have either passed new anti-conversion laws or updated existing ones after 2017 that put in place stricter punishments and newer grounds for restricting conversions. The other states are Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
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