The Ghaziabad police on Monday arrested 15 individuals, together with seven ladies, for allegedly inducing people to religiously convert in Sahibabad’s Karhera locality.
The police stated a neighborhood man invited people from Karhera to his home on Sunday night, on the pretext of attending a puja, however it turned out to be a conversion try as an alternative as a gaggle belonging to one other religion began preaching spiritual texts and luring the company to convert on Sunday night.
The police stated that they’ve registered an FIR towards 15 named suspects and two different unidentified people underneath the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Spiritual Conversion Act at Sahibabad police station.
The FIR was lodged by Karhera resident Subhash Chand Jatav who attended the occasion hosted on the home of Dinesh Kumar.
In his criticism, Jatav stated Kumar invited him for a puja at his home.
“The FIR was lodged on a criticism given by Jatav. In Karhera, the group was luring people by telling them that their diseases and unwell well being would get healed and that they might be given a monetary help if they begin following the practices of the opposite faith. Primarily based on a criticism, 15 people, together with Kumar and his spouse, have been arrested,” Bhaskar Verma, assistant commissioner of police, Shahibabad, stated.
