Pastor attacked and arrested on false charges of conversion in Andhra Pradesh, India

By James Varghese, Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in India

ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA  -  Hindu radicals attacked a pastor and reported him for distributing Christian literature in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh State, India, on Saturday, June 6.

According to a news released by the Global Council of Indian Christians GCIC on their website www.persecution.in, the incident took place on Saturday morning at around 8.30 am, when Pastor David Raju from Hyderabad went for a Christian meeting in one of his churches in a place called Mangalagiri in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.

On his arrival a group numbering about 20 people, allegedly belonging to Hindu radical groups, severely beat up Pastor Raju and later the attackers informed local police that he was participating in “forceful conversion” which were false charges.

The website reported that the pastor was taken into police custody and was released at around 2.30 PM.

According to the news source, after the meeting with the church leaders, the matter was brought to the compromise and the police and the Hindu radicals allowed the pastor to carry on with his meeting in the church that had invited him

Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Global Council of Indian Christians, Pastor David Raju

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