MP: 3 arrested for religious conversion sent to JC

The police said that the trio belonged to the Indian Evangelical Team.

The three persons arrested on charges of religious conversions in Madhya Pradesh have been sent to judicial custody. Three Christians were held from a village in Khandwa district of MP after a villager complained that they were forcibly trying to convert them.

Following the arrest the police produced Amarsingh, 35, Kishor Barela, 30, and Prabhakar Barela, 39 before a court which remanded them in judicial custody. The villagers said in their complaint that the three men had said if they believed in Jesus Christ their illness would be cured.

The police said that the trio belonged to the Indian Evangelical Team. The police said that one Raju Barela gave a written complaint following which arrests were made around 3 pm on Sunday. They have been booked under the anti-conversion law. A cross and some literature has been seized.

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