FOUR Christian men were arrested by the Karnataka police following a false complaint of religious conversion against them in Bangalore.
According to the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), an organization that fights for the rights of Christians in India, the three men identified as Vincent, Johnson, Satyan and Naveenand Vinod were arrested by the Kodihalli police in Bangalore after a complaint of proselytization was lodged against them by some Hindu group activists.
The four men were at a prayer meeting in the locality when local Hindu fundamentalists barged into the house and dragged them out. They took them to the police station by force and lodged the false complaint against them.
The group of Hindu activists was led by a person identified as Prashanth.
A GCIC coordinator told Compass that the intolerant Hindus shouted anti-Christian rants along the way, and that police were mute spectators as the extremists mocked the Christians at the police station.
Police charged the Christians with ‘deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.’
