MP Police on Sunday arrested ten Christians, including five women in Borgaon-Bujurg village for insulting Hindu religion and also converting some of the locals.
Ashok Bhavsar, a right-wing activist, as reported in The Indian Express, has accused the Christians of converting locals and also led allegations that they had offered money or clothes or tried to force the local to convert.
But the initial investigation revealed that the allegations were not true, said in-charge of Pandhana Police Station P S Maravi.
According to police, one Shyamlal had invited the Christians for celebration as his daughter had reportedly been cured of illness at a Changai Sabha in Pune. The Christians had gathered in the house of whose.
But at his place, some villagers were being converted by missionaries, alleged Ashok. The police booked them under the state’s anti-conversion act under Section 295 (A) of the IPC (deliberate and malicious act intended to hurt religious feelings) as per Ashok allegations.
Dhurubhai Bharatan, a Christian resident of Borgaon said that the activists pelted stones at the house and tried to bring down a wall. The police told the Christians that they will be provided protection but arrested them.
The accused were presented in a court in Khandwa on Saturday and have been sent to judicial custody.