Priests beaten up by Hindu Activists.
Pune: Two Christian priests were mercilessly beaten up by Bajrang Dal and VHP activists and paraded through the streets of Ichalkaranji town in Kolapur district of Maharashtra before being arrested on a charge of converting people.
Pro-Hindutva activists alleged that the priests Ajit Billawi and Ramesh Kagargole from Karnataka had been engaged in converting seven Hindus to Christianity. The incident occurred in Shahpur locality when activists of Hindu groups reached the spot where the priests of Frank Missionary Prayer Board were found performing rites to convert people, resident deputy collector Milind Pathak said.
The priests were dragged to the local police station after they had been beaten in public. They were detained by police after the activists filed a complaint against them that alleged they were converting people using coercion. Their cameras and photographs of the ceremony were also seized. The Maharashtra government on Tuesday ordered a probe into the assault on the priests on Monday evening. Condemning the attack, Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil told reporters in Mumbai: "Such incidents should not occur in a country like India where citizens have freedom to practise their religion".
Kolapur’s superintendent of police Sukhwinder Singh said a complaint had been registered against those involved in the attack on the priests. Singh said investigations were on to identify the attackers, who are local residents, and activists who complained the priests were trying to convert people.
(Deputy Chief Minister Shri. Patil’s anti-Hindu agenda! Shri. Patil ordered probe for the attack but not for the conversion attempt by the so-called Christian priests. By this decision Shri. Patil is testing the tolerance of Hindus. Hindus should protest against the anti-Hindu agenda of Shri. Patil. – Editor)
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