Six persons allegedly involved in vandalising a cathedral premises and a Catholic school, where people had gathered for a religious convention, were arrested Monday morning.
“We have arrested six persons involved in attacking the Catholic school and cathedral premises,” Jabalpur’s Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Isha Pant told PTI. Those arrested have been identified as Dharam Sena leader Yogesh Agrawal and his associates Nitin Rajak, Prateek Pyasi, Anurag Choukse, Abhishek Choukse and Sharad Rao, the ASP said.
They have been booked under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 294 (punishment for obscene acts or words in public), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 427 (mischief) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, besides other relevant sections, she said.
The incident took place on March 20 and in the early hours of March 21 when some members of the Christian community were allegedly assaulted and threatened by activists of Bajrang Dal and Dharam Sena, who attacked the school and a parsonage alleging that religious conversion had been taking place there. [. . . ].
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/six-arrested-for-vandalising-church-in-mp/article7023522.ece
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VHP-backed outfit attacks Christians
(The Hindu
April 3, 2007)
VHP-backed outfit attacks Christians
Staff Correspondent
BHOPAL: Members of the Dharma Sena, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad-backed outfit, attacked many Christians, including girls and women, who were participating in a Palm Sunday function in Jabalpur's Cantonment area. Case filed
The police have registered a case of rioting and damage to property under Sections 147, 148, 323, 427 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code against the Dharma Sena activists.
The Dharma Sena is a band of about two-dozen local activists drawing strength from the VHP. It spearheads an anti-conversion campaign in Jabalpur.
In Sunday's incident near the Hanuman Mandir on a hillock at Patababa, the Dharma Sena activists were outnumbered and two of them were also injured.
While those from the Christian community claimed that they had been going to the Patababa hill for the past several years, the Dharma Sena activists said they were there for preparations in connection with Monday's Hanuman Jayanthi.
When contacted, Collector Sanjay Dubey said police investigations were under way.
April 3, 2007)
VHP-backed outfit attacks Christians
Staff Correspondent
BHOPAL: Members of the Dharma Sena, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad-backed outfit, attacked many Christians, including girls and women, who were participating in a Palm Sunday function in Jabalpur's Cantonment area. Case filed
The police have registered a case of rioting and damage to property under Sections 147, 148, 323, 427 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code against the Dharma Sena activists.
The Dharma Sena is a band of about two-dozen local activists drawing strength from the VHP. It spearheads an anti-conversion campaign in Jabalpur.
In Sunday's incident near the Hanuman Mandir on a hillock at Patababa, the Dharma Sena activists were outnumbered and two of them were also injured.
While those from the Christian community claimed that they had been going to the Patababa hill for the past several years, the Dharma Sena activists said they were there for preparations in connection with Monday's Hanuman Jayanthi.
When contacted, Collector Sanjay Dubey said police investigations were under way.
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